I expect the Russians will lean on “combined arms” operations, meaning closer coordination among infantry, tanks, artillery, and airpower. If you just send in tanks without cover, they’re going to get knocked out, which we’ve seen in videos. What we could see is guerrilla warfare by U...
Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) obliges the State Parties to pursue negotiations in good faith in order to achieve the cessation of the nuclear arms race, the elimination of nuclear weapons and the ultimate goal of general and complete disarmament ...
Adding to a nuclear arsenal would not increase the power of deterrence. That view is misjudging the theory. Adding weapons adds to an expensive arms race. Even relatively small numbers of arms already in arsenals point to enough deterrence. The numbers may seem to boost one side, but having ...
Under the guiding principles of its nuclear policy--maintaining a minimum deterrent with a no-first use pledge and avoiding a nuclear arms race--the main purpose of China's nuclear modernization is to assure a limited, reliable, and effective counterattack nuclear capability for deterring a first...
Despite this grievance, Zakharova added that “Russia continues to regard the [New] START Treaty as an important tool for ensuring predictability and preventing an arms race. It continues to meet the interests of both parties. In particular, the uninterrupted exchange of notifications on the status...
In the 1980s, the Americans gambled on an escalation of the arms race against a failing Soviet opponent, a huge risk whose wisdom will be debated for years to come but whose outcome seemed to vindicate its supporters. Today, younger people untouched by the Cold War see more nuclear danger...
Overshadowed by the superpower nuclear arms race during the Cold War, nuclear proliferation has become a major field of interdisciplinary international relations (IR) research since the 1990s. Much nuclear proliferation research has revolved around the empirical puzzle of why so many states that could...
However, this direct military and political threat will by no means strengthen its national security, for such action will only provoke other countries like Russia to respond with equally increasing nuclear arsenal, thus leading to a potential arms race. ...
TRIGON DISUNITY TRILOGY:some well-meaning but stupid peaceniks invent a nuclear damper to prevent nuclear war. Unfortunately it also prevents nuclear power plants from operating, which is a problem since Peak Oil strikes and renewable energy sources are not ready for prime time. This results in th...
The end of World War II heralded the atomic age, and many countries embarked on a nuclear arms race [1]. From 1945 to 1964, the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the United Kingdom, France, and China successively became nuclear-armed countries [2, 3]. By...