Nuclear Exchange: Does Washington Really Have (or Want) Nuclear Primacy? | Foreign Affairs
Response to: The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy
Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press
For four decades, relations among the major nuclear powers have been shaped by their common vulnerability, a condition known as mutual assured destruction. But with the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia’s decays and China’s stays small, the era of MAD is ending — and the era of U.S. nuclear primacy has begun.