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As Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev well understood, smaller nuclear weapons with short flight times make nuclear war more likely. That is why they prioritized such systems for elimination through arms control agreements. Sadly, our current nuclear weapons plan — which emphasizes so-called low-yield, stealthy, “limited” nuclear war-fighting weapons delivered on ambiguous platforms such as cruise missiles — ignores that wisdom and needlessly risks returning us to the dark, dangerous days ...

© Getty Anytime a Secretary of Defense returns from Hawaii, one braces for tough talk and the “coming war with China.” Thankfully, Lloyd Austin Deterrence is as old as the first arms race, and “integrated deterrence” is not much younger. It simply means using all instruments of national power (e.g., diplomacy, economic instruments) and not just the ones that shoot bullets. It also includes building defensive alliances to intimidate our enemies. It’s torn from the pages of President E...

  It is time to debate the relevance of the concept of deterrence in the 21st century, when non-military threats such as climate change, pandemics, cyber, terror and “active measures” may prove more formidable dangers than opposing armies, navies and air forces. Deterrence emerged as a central and simple concept in the Cold War and the nuclear age. The argument was that if the two superpowers maintained enough nuclear capability to destroy the other after being attacked first, war would ...

Only arms race. >> john, how real is this schism foreign policy is a place where you can see that dividing line. youre covering washington day in and day out. do you see that dwayne becoming wider? >> yes. and i think bob mueller will have something to do with that, as well. i think theres a discreet issue. its a limited schism. but there are certain points where the republican in the congress are going to assert themselves. syria is one of them. they did it on russia sanctions after the electio...

American city that kim jong un will abide by deterrence theory. >> martha: when you think about the american military on that border and the time and money and history and commitment to protecting south korea from north korea, i mean, it seems to me that it raises a lot of questions when you have these hand shakes and we all understand the principle of the olympics is supposed to be that everybody puts down their arms for these moments and competes and focuses on sports and competition. i comple...