“We are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before.”—U.S. Defense Department official.A new era of war fighting is emerging for the U.S. military. Hi-tech weapons have …
"India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked a critical component—strategic military …
On May 11, 1998 , three nuclear devices exploded under the Thar, or Great Indian Desert, shaking the surrounding villages—and the rest of the world. The immediate effect was to …
Despite the ongoing drawdown of strategic forces under the terms of START, both the United States and Russia maintain large arsenals of nuclear weapons poised for immediate launch. …
Worldwide political changes have presented a unique opportunity for forging a new basis of international security relations. The end of the cold war, the dissolution of the Soviet …
How Iran - and the world around it - have changed in the four decades since a revolutionary theocracy took power.Iran's 1979 revolution is one of the most important events of the …
India is now enmeshed in the deterrence game?actively with its traditional adversary Pakistan, and potentially with China. At the same time it is finding easier access to fissile …
The United States continues to maintain a large nuclear arsenal guided by a deterrence strategy little changed since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Notwithstanding changes in the …
The rivalry between Japan and China has a long and sometimes brutal history, and they continue to eye each other warily as the balance of power tips toward Beijing. They cooperate …
With the post-cold war emphasis on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the neglected dimension has been the spread of advanced conventional arms. Yet these are the …
