This Week in 'Nation' History: The Fearless Idealism of Jonathan Schell
As he once wrote of history itself, Jonathan was “no respecter of conventional wisdom.”
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As he once wrote of history itself, Jonathan was “no respecter of conventional wisdom.”
Officials state the Biden Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will be ready for release soon.
On February 22, 1946, George Kennan, then a young American diplomat in the Soviet Union, penned a secret cable to the State Department. Kennan warned the United States faced an enemy dedicated to destroying its principal adversary by first weakening her allies through subversion, bribery, and intimidation and then achieving total military superiority.
The debate over whether to stick with the half-century-old Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile or replace it with the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program just got a whole lot easier. On May 12, Gen. Timothy Ray, commander of U.S.
Beijing is revealing its grand ambitions through its unprecedented nuclear modernization programs, inserting more uncertainty and risk into an already challenging international security environment. These forces will enable China to improve its ability to coerce the United States and restrain response options. As a result, the United States must carefully consider the growing Chinese threat as it pursues its own nuclear modernization to ensure that U.S. nuclear deterrence remains strong. The United States and its allies face significant and growing threats from Russia and China in “hybri...