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NATO must adapt to address Russia’s nuclear brinkmanship
Jacek Durkalec lists five areas where NATO’s nuclear policy should change in order to boost the credibility of deterrence.
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Anatomy of a Russian Exercise
A detailed account of the Russian snap exercise that took place in March 2015 featuring an interactive map. The exercise involved 80,000 troops, 65 warships, and 220 aircraft. The scale of this operation means it could only have been a scenario simulating war with NATO.
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Anatomy of a NATO Exercise
A detailed account of the June 2015 NATO exercise Allied Shield featuring an interactive map. The scale and nature of this exercise leaves Russia as the only possible adversary.
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Bridging the Gap in Policy on Nuclear Weapons: A View from Japan
Hirofumi Tosaki, argues that Japan, like many other states under the U.S. ‘nuclear umbrella’, is wedged between two contradictory positions – that nuclear weapons must be eliminated as soon as possible and that nuclear weapons serve as the most effective way to deter war in an changing world.
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Nuclear Weapons: Born in Sin, Doomed to be Banned
As the international community is commemorating the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs, it should be recalled that work on such weapons was initiated by one of the most vicious regimes in history, Nazi Germany. Even if nuclear deterrence, despite the lack of hard evidence, can...
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Removing Strategies of Mass Destruction from U.S. National Security Policy
Seyom Brown, from American Security Project, argues that the U.S. should remove strategies of mass destruction from its National Security Policy as they are anachronistic and ineffective.