Strategic Stability in a Three-Nuclear-Peer World: Offensive Strike Options, Missile Defense, and Abandoning Mutual Vulnerability

Strategic Stability in a Three-Nuclear-Peer World: Offensive Strike Options, Missile Defense, and Abandoning Mutual Vulnerability

The United States and its allies in the Indo–Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East face a security challenge beyond anything they have seen before. In addition to displaying newfound confidence, autocrats in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and Pyongyang are increasingly threatening the United States and its allies and increasingly carrying out acts of overt aggression.[REF]At the same time, the scope and scale of the threats facing the United States and…