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China’s Dual-Capable Missiles and Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation

Archive, Strategic Adversariesambiguity, command and control, conventional forces, crisis management, crisis stability, Deterrence, DF-26, dual-capable missiles, entanglement, escalation risk, inadvertent escalation, Indo-Pacific, International Security, military intelligence, Military Strategy, missile notifications, No First Use Policy, nuclear escalation, nuclear threshold, nuclear-conventional ambiguity, PLARF, risk reduction, security dilemma, signaling, strategic competition, strategic stability, Survivability, targeting, transparency, U.S.-China relations

China’s Dual-Capable Missiles and Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation

Peyton Mayer0 Comments

Published: September 14, 2026 China's expanding force of dual-capable missiles is creating a growing source of ambiguity in U.S.-China deterrence. The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) operates conventional and…

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Arms Control is No Panacea, But It Helps

Archive, Strategic Adversariesacademic research, arms control agreements, Arms Race, artificial intelligence, China, civil society, cold war, confidence-building measures, crisis management, cyber capabilities, cyber-nuclear interactions, Deterrence, diplomatic frameworks, economic costs, escalation, ethical concerns, global stability, Great Power Competition, humanitarian consequences, Hypersonic Weapons, India, INF Treaty, international institutions, missile defense, multipolar nuclear landscape, New start treaty, non-strategic nuclear weapons, North Korea, Nuclear arms control, Nuclear Deterrence, nuclear first use, nuclear modernization, nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, Nuclear Weapons, opportunity costs, Pakistan, regional rivalries, regional security architectures, restraint, risk reduction, Russia, South Korea, strategic instability, strategic mistrust, strategic stability, technological governance, technological innovation, United States

Arms Control is No Panacea, But It Helps

Stephen Cimbala0 Comments

Published: June 22, 2026 Some eighty years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the global community still struggles with the strategic, political, and ethical implications of nuclear arms races.…

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