Surviving in a Deregulated Strategic World

... players. The United Kingdom and France, which developed their weapons in the 1950s and 1960s, have always been U.S. allies within NATO, and their weapons were always considered by Moscow to be part of the Western bloc’s combined nuclear arsenal. Cold War-era nuclear bipolarity that coincided with a similar ideological and geopolitical division (China remained largely introverted ... ... issues, the general power imbalance between the two countries, and the asymmetrical strategic position of India and Pakistan. North Korea, which developed its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles in the 21st century, presented another problem. Its arrival ...