Iran is trying to bolster its "battered deterrence" after a general vowed to respond "decisively and destructively" to any threats in the wake of U.S. strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an expert ...

Since the detonation of the first atomic bombs in 1945, the global security architecture has been fundamentally shaped by the logic of nuclear deterrence (Knopf 2022). The unprecedented destructive ...

Deterrence polemics have all but disappeared from most newspapers and television, and with each new theme for our national security strategy, we are reading, seeing, and hearing less about deterrence.

Whether the United States defines China as a global threat or a predominantly regional one will have pervasive implications for U.S. alliance and deterrence strategy in Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

Can the United States achieve sufficient deterrence with fewer resources invested into nuclear weapons? Probably not. Former leaders of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) are encouraging the U.S.