Commentary In recent years, Beijing has spent billions of dollars adding to its nuclear arsenal—not just more nuclear bombs and warheads, but also new missiles, transporters, silos, submarines, and bombers. But what is behind this buildup of China’s nuclear forces in terms of nuclear strategy and geopolitics? For decades, the Chinese were more or less…

New Analysis Although the United States and Russia have cut down on nuclear weapons spending after the Cold War, China has been expanding its nuclear arsenal to match the top nuclear triad nations, resulting in greater tensions and threats of nuclear warfare. However, China’s ability to launch nuclear weapons at sea has become a challenge…

Nuclear weapons are “becoming more important” than they have been since the height of the Cold War, the House of Lords’ International Relations and Defence Committee has been told. Andrew Futter, a professor of international politics at the University of Leicester, told peers on May 17: “China’s stockpile is probably around 300 or 400, that’s…

News Analysis NEW DELHI–China’s strategic competition with the United States and the strengthening of its strategic nuclear arsenal has a direct impact on India with which it shares thousands of miles of disputed border. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Staff of the United States, Gen. Mark A. Milley called China the number…

President Joe Biden made a decision to propose to Russia a five-year extension of the New START treaty that limits the number of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons, John Kirby, chief Pentagon spokesman said in a statement on Thursday. The treaty, which restricts the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 1,550…