Chinese Nuclear Weapons

For decades, the Defense Department made little or no connection between China’s civilian nuclear power program and its military nuclear weapons buildup. No longer.  For the last three years, the...

Here’s What to Remember: Ray stressed a need for the U.S. to maintain its strategic deterrence posture with a modernized nuclear triad. China’s military seems like it is growing in every...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: A conventional strike could easily be misinterpreted as a nuclear attack and prompt a catastrophic nuclear weapons engagement. In a worst-case scenario, a large-scale nuclear counterattack could be launched...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Alongside an effort to emphasize the growing importance of allied operations in the Pacific, Ray stressed a need for the U.S. to maintain its strategic deterrence posture...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “I am reacting to what they are doing, which is significantly increasing their nuclear force with silo-based ICBMs. Several years ago they made a decision...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Ray did seem to acknowledge that what he called a “Diad,” or nuclear defense posture based solely upon air bombers and submarine-launched nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, would require...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Estimates suggested 194,000 people have died from acute radiation exposure, while around 1.2 million may have received doses high enough to induce leukemia, solid...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: While China has long supplied Pakistan’s armed forces, the relationship has deepened in recent years, with Pakistan making major purchases of top-of-the-line Chinese export equipment....

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Another concern amply evident in Chinese writings concerns tactical nuclear weaponry.  When one reads enough Chinese naval literature, diagrams of multi-axial cruise missile saturation attacks...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: This topic receives a lot of attention as many congressional reports and other public studies are clear to point out the accelerated pace at which China is...