China aims to use its nuclear breakout to pierce the rimland barrier without igniting a great-power war. Xi’s ability to ...
Within a decade, it is expected that China will have as many nuclear warheads deployed as the United States. Pentagon ...
The department's report states that US needs integration of non-nuclear capabilities, where feasible, to support nuclear ...
"We haven’t seen any indications of Russia preparing to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. We just have not seen that," White ...
Deterrence is impossible if U.S. strategic offensive forces cannot target the full range of enemy nuclear forces, ...
The secretary's warning came as Russia and China, two of nine nuclear-armed nations, are increasingly aligned with each other ...
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China’s Nuclear Rise
Could Russia and China team up to enhance their joint nuclear threat against the United States and its allies?
Chinese President Xi Jinping has devoted billions of dollars to his aim of transforming the military into a modern force by ...
A recent essay in the Washington Post offers a stark reminder that the threat of state-sponsored biological terrorism remains ...
The most important strategic shift that’s evident in planning for great power competition is a focus on deterrence. In ...
Putin’s use of nuclear weapons as a tool of strategic coercion has worked just fine before this change in doctrine. China has watched the Ukraine war closely and learnt the lessons of Putin’s nuclear ...
We’re facing multiple nuclear competitors, multiple states that are growing, diversifying and modernising their nuclear ...