Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation ...

Melissa Parke calls for eliminating arsenals to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It also called for an end to rationalizing nuclear deterrence theory, arguing that the policy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) threatened national security and increased the risk that nuclear ...

Deterrence theory is also seen by some as inconsistent ... impossible" to effectively address the problems facing China's nuclear deterrence strategy. Jiang said that while there were some policy ...

Will nuclear deterrence and strategic stability ... The ‘madman’ formulation in deterrence theory, predicated on uncertainty and irrationality, was postulated by American academics and ...

Despite the rapid growth and modernization of Russian and Chinese nuclear forces ... it is an unproven theory. We in the opposite camp disagree: we say that minimum deterrence has been proven ...

Strategic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 5, PERSPECTIVES ON DETERRENCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTUARY (2016), pp. 14-22 (9 pages) David Chance, “U.S. Flies Stealth ...

This project would reconsider deterrence and look at the role of nuclear weapons in deterring different kinds of attacks and ask where deterrence still makes sense as a part of U.S. defense strategy ...

David Chance, “U.S. Flies Stealth Bombers over South Korea in Warning to North,” Reuters, 28 March 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/28/us-korea-north ...

In The Nuclear Reckoning, a new mini-series from Sideways, broadcaster and journalist Matthew Syed argues that the thawing of the first Cold War has left us forgetful about the existential threat ...

A top priority of U.S. defense officials is to protect Americans from nuclear attacks ... The ability to retaliate makes deterrence work. Without it, a security crisis is likely to emerge.

Shockingly, it is estimated that 9,583 “active” nuclear warheads are ready to be used or deployed at any moment around the world. Seventy-nine years after the catastrophic atomic bombings of ...