Financial Times
US ‘ill-prepared’ for nuclear challenge from China and Russia, says report
October 12, 2023
The US must expand or restructure its nuclear arsenal to tackle the “existential challenge” posed by the growing nuclear threat from China and existing risk from Russia, a new report by a congressionally mandated commission has said.
The bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the US, which is tasked with examining American strategic policy, warned that Washington was “ill-prepared” to tackle the challenge posed by having two peer nuclear adversaries for the first time.
“The new global environment is fundamentally different than anything experienced in the past, even in the darkest days of the cold war,” the panel warned in the report.
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