The inclusion of space-based interceptors is a particularly hard nut for Moscow to swallow, given long-standing Russian belief that such weapons are aimed at undercutting the country’s nuclear retaliatory capability following a US first strike.
Russia's stance will need to be "baked into" Biden administration "thinking as we look at our own nuclear modernization, our own deterrence measures that we may want to take, and what the security environment could look like after 2026," said White House arms control advisor Pranay Vaddi.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Of military to military relations with China, the US is "ready to talk when you're ready to talk," White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said today in a speech to the Arms Control Association.
"It is going to take us 10 to 15 years to modernize 400 silos that already exist. And China is basically building almost that many overnight. So the speed of difference in that threat is what really concerns me most," Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs says.
"There is a reason, however, that David slung his stone into the forehead of Goliath rather than his musculature. Without a head connected to a body, a nuclear force is useless," the new study by the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network states.
It may seem counterintuitive that America investing in a new nuclear weapon design could help lower the chances of a nuclear conflict. But in this new op-ed, Naval War College professor David A. Cooper argues just that, noting that the concept for a new sea-launched cruise missile could end up benefitting nonproliferation and arms control […]
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
"I think the challenge [to establishing nuclear dialogue] is going to be on the Chinese side," said Maj. Gen. Michael Lutton.
A top Pentagon official today expressed skepticism over China's nuclear intentions, but he maintained the US wants Beijing at the table for New START talks with Russia
The study finds that 1 B-21, with 10 Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) cruise missiles and eight nuclear warheads, would cost $500 million, and $40 million a year (in 2020 dollars) to maintain.
Today's announcement of the administration's “intent” to nominate Polakowski, a retired Army two-star general who worked on WMD issues throughout his career, comes the day after a senior Pentagon official acknowledged that the US could resume nuclear testing “relatively rapidly,” should the decision be made.
Why edge and endpoint security can’t be an afterthought.
The move sets up a fight with Capitol Hill, which wasn't given the legally-mandated 120-day notice of the US intent to withdraw from the pact.
No political message was intended by the launch. Testing "is not used as a 'signaling mechanism' politically," Col. Omar Colbert, Air Force Global Strike Command's 576th Flight Test Squadron commander, stressed on Monday.
ARLINGTON, VA: The likely demise of the US-Russia New START treaty could lead to a dangerous uptick in jamming, lazing and possibly even kinetic attacks of US satellites designed to monitor Russia nuclear weapons and forces, says a new study by the respected Aerospace Corp. Noting that prospects for extension of the New START treaty […]
John Beyrle, ambassador to Russia during the George W. Bush Administration, says letting New START expire would be "a pretty solid punch to the solar plexus of strategic stability."