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Militarization in the Baltic and the Arctic compared: The Arctic is the dangerous place

2019-05-24 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

The Arctic will not be a peaceful exception in a militarized world. In this post I compare the security situation in the Baltic and the Arctic. Both regions are militarized these days, but in very different ways. The most dangerous dynamics are in the Arctic, and it will get worse in the coming years.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics, Nuclear weapons Tagged With: Arctic, NATO, Russia, USA, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Why does Russia break the INF Treaty?

2018-11-05 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

Before the INF Treaty collapses, it is worth pondering why Russia is building a missile that breaks it. I argue that it is because they want a conventional missile akin to Tomahawk. It is silly if we turn this into a nuclear race.

Filed Under: Military strategy and politics, Nuclear weapons Tagged With: NATO, Russia, USA, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Synthetic biology creates concerns about proliferation of biological weapons

2018-08-17 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Advances in synthetic biology creates great opportunities for commercial use, but they also make it easy for people to produce and proliferate biological weapons. Al Mauroni has written a good article about the problem.

Filed Under: Nuclear weapons Tagged With: Weapons of Mass Destruction

Fear of missile defense traces back to World War II for Russia

2018-04-06 By Anders Puck Nielsen 1 Comment

Article recommendation about the history of Russian concerns with Western missile defense technology. This is not a new thing, and there is little hope for arms control treaties that do not include missile defense.

Filed Under: Nuclear weapons Tagged With: NATO, Russia, USA, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Podcast recommendation: WOTR – A big debate about a little nuke

2018-03-15 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

There is a great discussion about Russia and nuclear weapons in this episode of the War on the Rocks podcast. The panel is terrific. Olga Oliker is brilliant, Frank Miller is wrong about most things concerning Russia but argues his case very well, and Vipin Narang has deep technical insights. Ryan and Usha do a […]

Filed Under: Nuclear weapons Tagged With: Russia, USA, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Russia’s new nuclear weapons are about missile defense

2018-03-15 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Vladimir Putin spent a surprising amount of time in his March 1st speech talking about nuclear weapons. Pavel K. Baev has some interesting considerations in Brookings about the possible motivations for this: Russia’s economic weakness is so profound that Russia cannot possibly engage in anything resembling a real arms race with the United States and […]

Filed Under: Nuclear weapons Tagged With: Russia, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Kofman’s look at Putin’s new weapon announcements (updated)

2018-03-05 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Last week, Vladimir Putin held a speech in which he announced some spectacular new weapons including supersonic missiles and an intercontinental ballistic missile with nuclear propulsion to give it unlimited range. Few people are as qualified to comment on the weapon announcements as Michael Kofman. He has just released part 1 in a two-part series […]

Filed Under: Nuclear weapons Tagged With: Russia, Weapons of Mass Destruction

U.S. Nuclear Posture Review misses the point on Russia

2018-02-26 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

The Pentagon published its Nuclear Posture Review for 2018 (NPR) earlier in February. It dramatically changes some assumptions about nuclear weapons that were laid out in the previous NPR from 2010. The new NPR concludes that there has been a deterioration in international relations with a return to great power competition and a more complex […]

Filed Under: Nuclear weapons Tagged With: Russia, USA, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Nuclear weapons aren’t actually a deterrent on their own

2018-01-26 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Mark Galeotti makes an interesting point in this post on War on the Rocks titled Britain’s Nuclear Deterrent Isn’t a Military Asset, and Shouldn’t Be Funded as One. The financial aspect of the argument is less interesting than the military point. Galeotti argues that two expensive projects, namely the two new aircraft carriers with accompanying […]

Filed Under: Nuclear weapons Tagged With: United Kingdom, Weapons of Mass Destruction

Russia’s new strategic bombers will fly soon

2017-11-23 By Anders Puck Nielsen Leave a Comment

Dave Majumdar for The National Interest: Early next year in February, the first of Russia’s new production Tupolev Tu-160M2 Blackjack supersonic strategic bombers will take to the air. The new bomber is essentially a prototype of a next generation variant of the venerable Blackjack, the first generation of which was built during the 1980s in […]

Filed Under: Air Force Tagged With: Russia, Weapons of Mass Destruction

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