... also at expanding the range of their tactical and technical characteristics: range, accuracy, ability to overcome missile defense, and providing several options for combat equipment. As a result, China has come close to establishing a fully functional nuclear triad, with each of its components showing signs of becoming more versatile and resilient.
Alexander Yermakov:
The Three-Body Problem
A good example of China’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development is the new-generation solid-fuel ...
... survivability of national strategic forces
Last year, we took
a brief look at
possible alternatives for the evolution of strategic nuclear forces at the dawn of the nuclear era in the 1950–60s. Following a period of “creative experimentation,” the nuclear triad had more or less settled in its classic form, and it has since survived to the present day without any fundamental changes. But this is bound to end very soon.
Certainly, to say that the nuclear triad has not changed after its full deployment ...
The USA continues to move towards the reinstatement of nuclear weapons as a fundamental element of national and international security
Experts and politicians are familiar with several variants of the 2018 NPR. The Huffington Post published a draft in mid-January. On February 2, in the run-up to the February 5 deadline to meet the central limits of the US–Russia New START treaty, the NPR was officially presented in the Pentagon by representatives of the Department of Defense, the Department of...
