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Nuclear Right-sizing

Joe Buff0 Comments

At the core of American deterrence is the question of right-sizing the arsenal. Given the growing arsenals of China, North Korea, and Russia, there is ample reason to question whether…

Archive, Strategic AdversariesChina, DPRK, missile defense, North Korea, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, ROK, Ulchi Freedom Shield

The North Korean Missile Threat

James Ragland0 Comments

When the United States withdrew its nuclear forces from the Korean Peninsula in 1991, it could not have known how the strategic environment would change over the next three decades.…

Archive, Challenging Disarmament Disinformation, Strategic AdversariesCOVID-19, denuclearization, Gaza, Hiroshima, nagasaki, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear disarmament, nuclear pandemic, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Syria, Ukraine, world war III, WWIII

The Consequences of Nuclear Disarmament

Aaron Holland & Joe Buff0 Comments

Advocates of nuclear abolition wish humanity could live in a world without nuclear weapons. However, results of such a policy could be catastrophic. Bad actors, for example, would likely cheat…

Archive, Deterrence & Foreign Policy, Strategic AdversariesChina, cold war, Gulf War I, Iraq, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Korean War, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear modernization, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Weapons, proliferation, Russia, Soviet Union, Taliban, Xi Jinping

America’s Downward Slide

Peter Huessy0 Comments

In a recent Foreign Affairs article, Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates writes, The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever.…

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Annie Jacobsen Gets It Wrong about Nuclear Deterrence

Peter Huessy1 Comment

Annie Jacobsen’s new book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, is receiving rave reviews. It portrays a scenario in which a limited North Korean nuclear strike on the United States spirals into…

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The Climate Change Consequences of Nuclear Weapons

Adam Lowther0 Comments

With the recent release of Annie Jacobsen’s highly acclaimed novel, Nuclear War: A Scenario, Americans are waking up to the fact that it is time to reconsider the role of…

Archive, Strategic AdversariesAir Force Global Strike, Bush, China, Congressional Research Service, National Security, Nuclear Posture Review, Russia, U.S. Military

The US Military’s Unwinnable War

Ray Vann2 Comments

The post–Cold War period’s absence of nuclear competition led the American military to believe that the only way to win a nuclear war was to never fight one. This belief is challenged…

Archive, Strategic Adversariesballistic missile defense, BMD, Deterrence modernization, directed energy weapons, homeland defense, ICBM, Nuclear Deterrence, Russia cheyenne mountains

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…

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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…

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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,…