The Real Nuclear Balance, How Much is Too Little?

Abstract

A President Joe Biden is likely to revisit the Nuclear Posture Review and fundamentally reimagine the U.S. nuclear deterrent as a much smaller, less diverse, less capable, and less expensive force. Rep. Adam Smith, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), presently the most powerful Democrat shaping U.S. national security policy, speaking before the Center for a New American Security recently opined: What I want us to have is a nuclear arsenal that is sufficient to deter anyone from thinking that it makes sense to start a nuclear war. We have a nuclear arsenal that still envisions winning a nuclear war...That's what I find insane. It's worth having the debate to envision what our nuclear deterrence policy should look like and what do we need to build to achieve it?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 07, 2020
Accession Number
AD1116565

Entities

People

  • Peter V. Pry

Organizations

  • United States Department of Homeland Security

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arms Control
  • Ballistic Missile Submarines
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cold War
  • Department Of State
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Security
  • North Korea
  • Nuclear Bombs
  • Nuclear Warheads
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Strategic Weapons
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Weapons

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  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Strategic Security Studies