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The Utah National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 222nd Field Artillery participates in a recruiting and family day live-fire artillery demonstration at Camp Williams in Utah, on May 15, 2021. (US Army photo by Ileen Kennedy)

Commentary

Defense Spending in 2023: On The Chopping Block

Missile maintainers tear down an ICBM for Maintenance

Senior Airman Andrew Parrish performs maintenance on the forward section of an ICBM's reentry system on February 2, 2018, at the F. E. Warren Air Force Base missile complex in Wyoming. (Braydon Williams via DVIDS)

Commentary

Action Needed to Maintain US Nuclear Deterrence

While North Korea is threatening to launch an ICBM at a normal angle and increasing the level of provocation, the United States has deployed the world's strongest fighter jet, the F-22 stealth fighter, and the B-52 strategic bomber near the Korean Peninsula. Together with former high-ranking officials, we take a look at North Korea's escalating threat of provocation and the United States' formidable response strategy. It also analyzes the impact of Japan's revision of security documents and the resulting mi

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In the Media

Strengthening the Deployment of US Strategic Assets to the Korean Peninsula

Patrick M. Cronin

Asia-Pacific Security Chair

Patrick M. Cronin

Dec 24, 2022

In the Media

Chinese nuclear missiles during a military parade on September 3, 2015, in Beijing, China. (Xinhua/Pan Xu via Getty Images)

Commentary

Chinese Nuclear Deceptions

U.S. Nuclear Policy and Deterrence Strategy: Russia-Ukraine War and Its Implications for the Indo-Pacific

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In the Media

US Nuclear Policy and Deterrence Strategy: Russia-Ukraine War and Its Implications for the Indo-Pacific

Masashi Murano

Senior Fellow, Japan Chair

Masashi Murano

Dec 8, 2022

In the Media

Firefighters conduct search and rescue operations at a residential building hit by a kamikaze drone on October 17, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Commentary

Iran's Drones Allow It to Export Instability

Luke Coffey

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Luke Coffey

Nov 25, 2022

Commentary

5 Min Read

North Korea ICBM Nuclear Weapons Missile Defense

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In the Media

North Korean Nuclear Threats and Homeland Preparedness

Thomas DiNanno

Former Adjunct Fellow

Thomas DiNanno

Nov 18, 2022

In the Media

Nuclear Missile Preparedness Drill National Security China Russia

Rescue personnel evacuate mock victims from a subway train during a homeland defense emergency drill involving a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack in an urban environment in New York City on August 4, 2021. (Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

Reports

New Nuclear Threats Require Homeland Civil Preparedness

Christopher Yeaw

Associate Executive Director for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Programs at the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska

Brian Cavanaugh

Thomas DiNanno

Former Adjunct Fellow

Christopher Yeaw, Brian Cavanaugh & Thomas DiNanno

Nov 16, 2022

Reports

8 Min Read

Bryan Clark NATO Poland Missiles Russia Ukraine Putin

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In the Media

Russian-Made Missiles Cross into Poland, Killing Two

Bryan Clark

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology

Bryan Clark

Nov 15, 2022

In the Media

heinrichs xi biden putin nuclear deterrence

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In the Media

America's Adversaries Are on the March

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Nov 12, 2022

In the Media

A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1A interceptor is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the Pacific Ocean. The SM-3 Block 1A successfully intercepted a target missile that had been launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

A Standard Missile-3 Block 1A interceptor is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie during a Missile Defense Agency and US Navy test in the Pacific Ocean on February 13, 2013. (US Navy photo)

Reports

Eleven Myths and Realities about Biden’s Missile Defense Review

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Nov 10, 2022

Reports

7 Min Read

An Iranian long range surface to surface Qadr missile and an anti-aircraft gun are displayed in a war exhibition organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in a park in southern Tehran to mark the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war on September 23, 2021. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Commentary

Iran’s Ballistic Missiles and the Folly of Appeasement