The U.S. is producing nuclear weapons at levels not seen since the Cold War, Energy Secretary Chris Wright says, citing ...

Deterrence polemics have all but disappeared from most newspapers and television, and with each new theme for our national security strategy, we are reading, seeing, and hearing less about deterrence.

At the end of World War II, the arrival of atomic weapons forced military planners to rethink the very nature of war. Instead ...

OMAHA, Nebraska—The U.S. government needs to be quicker about rolling out new integrated deterrence efforts, the Pentagon’s top military officer says, as global tensions have risen since the Biden ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

The Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site played a major role in the U.S. strategy of nuclear deterrence during ...

The arms race between United States and the then Soviet Union saw a proliferation of nuclear warheads as well as their vectors. The arms race between United States and the then Soviet Union saw a ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a time when the United States and the Western allies appear weak on the international scene, restoring deterrence ...

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