Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?
Article/Op-Ed in In the Room with Peter Bergen
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Jan. 28, 2025
In Episode 87 of his podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen explores the effort to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal and concerns about a potential arms race.
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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