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Nuclear Posture Review

Joe Cirincione is Wrong about Donald Trump

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic AdversariesAmerican defense policy, Antonio Gramsci, Biden administration, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, China, Chinese, conservative organizations, disarmament groups, Donald Trump, Dunning-Kruger effect, Herbert Marcuse, Heritage Foundation, James Ragland, Keywords explicitly mentioned in the document: Joe Cirincione, Manhattan Project-era infrastructure, Marxists, National Institute for Deterrence Studies. , National Nuclear Security Administration, National Security, New START, North Korean nuclear capability, nuclear arsenal, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear policy, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear triad, Project 2025, Russia’s nuclear threats, Russian

Joe Cirincione is Wrong about Donald Trump

James Ragland0 Comments

Joe Cirincione is a prolific commentator on nuclear issues with a long track record of advocating for nuclear arms reductions and disarmament. His publications play an important role in shaping…

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The Prospects for Nuclear Deterrence in the Next American Administration

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Bonus Reads, EAR Reportcongress, EAR Report, HASC, ICBM, New start treaty, nuclear attack, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear modernization, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Weapons, SALT, SASC, The Hill

The Prospects for Nuclear Deterrence in the Next American Administration

Peter Huessy2 Comments

The four years from 2025 promise to be a very difficult time for nuclear deterrence if the trends of the past decade and one-half since the completion of the New…

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America’s Downward Slide

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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The US Military’s Unwinnable War

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…

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