An accelerating arms race will determine the contest for strategic primacy between the United States and China. At stake is whether future generations benefit from a prevailing liberal democratic order or become enveloped by a spreading illiberal anti-democratic order organized, led, and armed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
This first article in the series “Arms Racing with China” will explore the U.S.-China balance in tactical nuclear weapons. Very little is said publicly by U.S. or Chinese sources regarding China’s tactical nuclear weapons arsenal, but available sources should be considered, as some in the U.S. Congress rise to oppose the Trump administration effort to develop new tactical nuclear weapons for the United States.
