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This administration, like the four administrations before it, issued a Nuclear Posture Review and Nuclear Weapons Employment Planning Guidance."
Asked about what the US daily had reported, White House spokesperson Sean Savett said It remains the major driver behind US nuclear strategy,
My understanding is that the point at which the current administration thinks it might want to consider such changes won't come until 2030, or some time after,
There is no need to grow the stockpile yet, but adjustments to the number of deployed capabilities may be necessary if our adversaries continue down the current paths,
While not a major power rival like the PRC and Russia, North Korea's continued improvement and diversification of its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities present deterrence dilemmas for the United States and regional allies,
(The ... The guidance) emphasizes the need to account for the growth and diversity of the PRC's nuclear arsenal and the need to deter Russia, the PRC and North Korea simultaneously,
he told the forum, referring to China by its official name, the People's Republic of China We can't sleep on North Korea, which also continues to expand, diversify and improve its nuclear ballistic missile and non-nuclear capabilities,
It is our responsibility to see the world as it is, not as we hoped or wished it would be,
the Times quoted Narang as saying The modeling work involves simulations of shock waves from explosively projecting pieces of metal against another solid metal. This modeling is necessary to understand how a nuclear explosion would take place,
It is not obvious from reading the documents that the authors are working on the codes for nuclear weapons,
That can save them time in building a bomb, but we don’t know enough about their program to be able to quantify it. Overall, they have done enough that they can certainly do it in less than six months,
There is a possibility, with the advances that have been made under the Biden administration’s policy, that Iran could, reports are out, that Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapon state by the end of the year,
What logic or law dictates that arrogant powers should have nuclear weapons, but Iran should not?”
Sabbaghian asked rhetorically Donald Trump, with the maximum pressure campaign on Iran, put the most pressure on Iran that they have had in any administration. Both economically, militarily, they were on the ropes,
Turner told “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan Officials fear they could be part of a covert Iranian effort to use the period around the U.S. presidential election to make progress toward nuclear weaponization,
The president recently issued updated nuclear-weapons employment guidance to account for multiple nuclear-armed adversaries,
Vipin Narang, an M.I.T. nuclear strategist who served in the Pentagon, said earlier this month before returning to academia I'm not looking to be bad to Iran. We're going to be friendly, I hope, with Iran,