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Safeguarding Against Catastrophic Threats and Decapitating Strikes

Aaron Holland0 Comments

The Cheyenne Mountain Complex is a military installation located in Colorado and designed to provide command-and-control functions for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the United States Northern…

Allies & Extended Deterrence, ArchiveChina, Indo-Pacific, INDOPACOM, nuclear arsenal, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear modernization, Taiwan

Indo-Pacific Command: US Must Improve Nuclear Deterrence

Christophe Bosquillon0 Comments

On March 20, 2024, the House Armed Services Committee hosted a hearing on military posture and challenges in the Indo-Pacific. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Ely Ratner, testified that “China continues…

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It’s Time to Declare Fentanyl a National Security Threat

Curtis McGiffin0 Comments

In testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 1, 2024, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director, Christopher Wray, confirmed a wide array of national security threats are coming across…

Archive, Space Deterrence & Conflictanti-satellite, Beijing, China, defense, EMP, high-energy, kinetic, Moscow, Nuclear Weapons, on-orbit, outer space treaty, Russia, satellite, Space, space-attack, space-based, spacecraft, Sputnuke, surveillance, weapons

To Deter in Space, the US Needs On-Orbit Parity

Joe Buff0 Comments

Space forms an infinite supranational common, which, as ultimate high ground, envelops the Earth and offers significant opportunity positive or negative use. Whoever can achieve on-orbit military superiority has the…

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesabolish, bulletin of atomic scientists, China, Iran, Israel, Libya, New start treaty, North Korea, NPT, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear posture, nuclear proliferation treaty, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, test ban treaty, war

Why Nuclear Weapons Abolition Will Kill Millions (Again)

Kirk Fansher2 Comments

Einstein once said that he did not know how World War III would be fought, but World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. Nuclear abolitionists, in their…

Archive, Strategic AdversariesNorth Korea, NPT, nuclear capabilities, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear proliferation treaty, Nuclear Retaliation, Russia, taboo

The Perilous Void: Imagining a World without U.S. Nuclear Deterrence

Aaron Holland1 Comment

The Conference on Disarmament for the United Nations met on March 18th, 2024. Sixty-five member states were in attendance, including nuclear powers such as China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia,…

Archive, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic Adversariesballistic missile defense, El Dorado, Gaza, hamas, Hezbollah, houthis, Iran, iranian aggression, IRGC, weapons

The US Is Undermining Deterrence with Iran

Kirk Fansher1 Comment

It is naïve to classify Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis as terrorist organizations, simply because they use terror tactics. They are Iranian “irregular forces” and an extension of the Islamic…

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic AdversariesAnthony Cotton, Arms Control, congress, elected officials, HASC, ICBM Minuteman III, New start treaty, Russia, US Strategic Command

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fairy Tales

Peter Huessy0 Comments

The federal budget is currently working its way through Congress. The most visible target for cuts is the Department of Defense, in particular, nuclear modernization accounts. In 2010, Congress and…

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NATO’s Fledgling Nuclear Deterrence

Todd Clawson0 Comments

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) many strategic documents, leader speeches, and summit communiques regularly repeat the moniker, “As long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance.”…

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Nuclear Challenges: Inhibition and Extended Deterrence

Aaron Holland1 Comment

An American grand strategy of inhibition, characterized by efforts to curtail the spread of independent nuclear weapons programs, has long been a cornerstone of American foreign policy. Rooted in the…

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It Is Difficult to Break the Russia-India Link

Amit Gupta0 Comments

When the Ukraine war broke out, India implemented a series of policy measures that took the West by surprise. In the United Nations General Assembly, it refused to condemn the…