On Nov. 16, U.S. and Chinese leaders met on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, jointly affirming “the need to maintain human control over the decision to use ...

In a wide-ranging conversation, Gen. Bussiere, head of Air Force Global Strike Command, shared key updates on U.S. bomber modernization, strategic deterrence, and the future of nuclear command and ...

The future of defense communications relies on agile, secure and scalable networks that empower warfighters to dominate the information domain—even in the most contested and austere environments. As ...

Adversaries of the United States, especially Russia and China, are determined to undermine the post-Cold War international order. For the United States to be unprepared for not one but two nuclear ...

In light of the changing global security landscape, the War Department is considering how to approach modern-era deterrence ...

A hot potato: The US is one of several countries that previously declared it would always keep control of nuclear weapons in the hands of humans, not AI. But the Pentagon isn't averse to using ...

Command and control enables decision authority over the nuclear enterprise. It links national command authority with forces in the field to minimize decision time and maintain effectiveness. Join ...

The United States is currently taking steps to modernize its nuclear enterprise and ensure that U.S. strategic forces are optimally postured to continue their deterrence mission and protect the United ...

In 1959, the American political scientist Albert Wohlstetter argued in these pages that the United States did not possess a sufficient second-strike capability to provide stable nuclear deterrence ...