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Berkowitz, Marc J. "Antisatellites and Strategic Stability." Air & Space Power Journal. (Winter 1989). [ 1 reference ]
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Redundant Communication Links will Keep Loss of Space Assets from Escalating Conflicts
Similarly, it is unlikely that ASAT employment against communications
satellites could significantly impede the transmission of a cease-fire order and thus reduce the likelihood of early conflict termination. This is not to underestimate the difficulty of maintaining strategic command and control in a nuclear wartime environment. But it is to suggest that satellites may not be such crucial communication links that their disablement or destruction effectively would result in decapitation and spasm retaliation. In addition, redundant communication links between the superpowers are available for wartime negotiations. The 1963 Hot-Line Agreement established a duplex telegraph circuit linked by cable between Moscow and Washington and a high-frequency radio backup. When the hot line was upgraded in 1971 with the addition of satellite circuits, the cable link became the backup, and the radio link was eliminated ( More ... )
Berkowitz, Marc J. "Antisatellites and Strategic Stability." Air & Space Power Journal. (Winter 1989). [ 1 reference ]