The Biden administration should not anticipate a rapid breakthrough during bilateral negotiations with Russia and China.
After withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in August 2019, President Donald Trump envisioned a comprehensive agreement that controlled all Russian and Chinese nuclear systems, including about 100 Russian and 2,200 Chinese ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles. With the Xi government unwilling to join arms control negotiations, the Trump administration expressed interest in a bilateral deal with Russia. To augment its bargaining position and military capabilities, it secured $181 million to develop conventional intermediate-range missiles.
On the one hand, analysis of the American diplomacy between 1977 and 1987 that produced the INF Treaty suggests that the Biden administration should continue building ground-based, intermediate-range conventional missiles, which will have significant operational value. Develo
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Former CIA Chief of Station Dan Hoffman says ‘we still don’t know’ how much information Russians accessed during the attack.
The recently discovered massive cyberattack on U.S. government and industry computer networks by a foreign adversary isn’t the first nor will it be the last such hostile action. While the Trump administration has strengthened U.S. defenses and revved up America’s cyber offense, it’s clear that the incoming Biden administration will need to do a lot more because the attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday that we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians who launched the cyberattack, carried out by embedding malware into several U.S. government agencies and businesses.
According to a new report, China is making plans to double its nuclear warhead arsenal, which includes ballistic missiles designed to reach the U.S.
President-elect Joe Biden promised during his election campaign to extend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which expires in February, for another five years and then pursue a new nuclear arms reduction treaty.
Recently, others in the Democratic Party have begun to publicly advocate a shorter-term extension to afford the incoming Biden administration a chance to pursue its own nuclear arms reduction agreement more quickly.
Such a potential agreement should have to pass three conditions when submitted to the U.S. Senate: first, the treaty should cover all nuclear weapons; second, it is time to abandon the Cold War paradigm and include rising powers, like China, in arms control; and, third, the U.S. must remain committed to a robust modernization of its nuclear weapons complex and triad.
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