Both the US and Russia have flying command systems which use very long trailing wires to send launch commands. The problem: they're nearly a single point of fa

Both the US and Russia have flying command systems which use very long trailing wires to send launch commands. The problem: they're nearly a single point of failure. If you can hit the other side's command systems their missiles won't be going anywhere. I'd assume both sides know this and contingencies and redundancies exist.