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The most likely nuclear risk Pyongyang poses is spreading WMD technology in the Middle East.

China-U.S. Cyber-Nuclear C3 Stability April 08, 2021 Source: Getty Summary:  Cyber threats to nuclear command, control, and communications systems (NC3) attract increasing concerns. Carnegie and partners have developed a platform of unclassified knowledge to enable U.S.-China engagement on this issue. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! About the Project This paper was produced through a three-year dialogue led by Carnegie and the Shanghai Insti...

Malcolm Davis Malcolm Davis is a Senior Analyst in Defence Strategy and Capability programme of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. He has worked with the Australian Department of Defence, both in Navy Headquarters in the Strategy and Force Structure area, and with Strategic Policy Division in the Strategic Policy Guidance and Strategic External Relations and Education sections from November 2007 to March 2012. He holds a PhD in Strategic Studies from the University of Hull as well as tw...

Hypersonic and directed-energy weapons: Who has them, and who’s winning the race in the Asia-Pacific? Mike Yeo, Nigel Pittaway, Usman Ansari, Vivek Raghuvanshi and Chris Martin March 15 Photo credit: Imaginima/Getty Images MELBOURNE, Australia, ISLAMABAD, NEW DELHI, and WASHINGTON — A number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region are caught up in the global hypersonic and directed-energy weapons race, with these regional powers having either developed or publicly stated intentions to dev...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  The failure to manage Earth orbits as a commons undermines safety and predictability, exposing space operators to growing risks such as collisions with other satellites and debris. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Check your email for details on your request. Traditionally, commons are areas beyond state dominion that host finite resources available to all (like the oceans) or...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Since the 1990s, every U.S. presidential administration has published a Nuclear Posture Review that explains the rationales behind its nuclear strategy, doctrine, and requested forces. The review envisioned and summarized here explicitly elucidates the dilemmas, uncertainties, and tradeoffs that come with current and possible alternative nuclear policies and forces. Published January 21, 2021 Executive Summary Ever since the election of Bill Clinton in...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  A potential five-year extension of the treaty is welcome news, but there is still more work to be done on reducing nuclear risks, halting arms races with Russia and China, and keeping Americans safe. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! What is the status of negotiations on extending New START? On January 21, news broke that U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration will se...

It blurs the lines between conventional and nuclear weapons. Heres What You Need to Remember: Acton recommends confidence-building measures in which the United States and Russia would agree not to mass cruise missiles within range of each others strategic targets, prohibit testing of anti-satellite weapons, and include intercontinental boost-glide hypersonic weapons within the next strategic arms reduction treaty. We cant know for sure what was on Vladimir Putins mind last week when he boasted...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Since the 1990s, every U.S. presidential administration has published a Nuclear Posture Review that explains the rationales behind its nuclear strategy, doctrine, and requested forces. The review envisioned and summarized here explicitly elucidates the dilemmas, uncertainties, and tradeoffs that come with current and possible alternative nuclear policies and forces. Published January 21, 2021 Executive Summary Ever since the election of Bill Clinton in...

This picture taken on January 14, 2021 and released from North Koreas official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Jan 15 sees people dancing amid fireworks during a parade celebrating the 8th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang. - AFP SEOUL, Jan 16 (Bloomberg): Kim Jong-un has rolled out a lot of new missiles in recent months, including at least one more this week. The next step is for him to fire them into the air to get President-elect Joe Biden’s att...