DiscoverIn the Room with Peter BergenIs A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?
Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?

Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?

Update: 2025-01-28
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Very quietly, and with little public discussion, the U.S. military has undertaken a $1.5 trillion project to modernize America’s nuclear triad – the planes, submarines and missiles that deliver nuclear weapons. It’s one of the biggest and most expensive projects in American military history – more costly, even, than the Manhattan Project. But how necessary is this modernization effort? And what message does it send to our nuclear adversaries?

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Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?

Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?