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Keeping abreast of the arms race. As we have been documenting over the last year and beyond, China is rapidly modernizing its military; unveiling a new stealth bomber, an array of guided-weapons, and deploying further from home. Their most recent focus has been on next generation nuclear weapons - as Beijing ramps up blast experiments for nukes comprised of smaller, smarter warheads designed to limit damage by targeting specific targets, according to the South China Morning Post…. China's...

Arms race on. Defense industry, a euphemism for the military industrial complex, salivates.As DefSec Mattis admits, the US cannot stop an ICBM attack by capabilities that already exists, so new technology doesn't increase the threat. The US strategy is not to counter an attack directly with through deterrence based on the the nuclear triad, or "trident."No matter, huge increases in defense spending are already on the way.The National InterestCould America Stop a Cruise Missile or Hypersonic...

By declaring Putin’s Russia to be the greatest danger to America, the political-media establishment itself is endangering US national security. The NationRussia Is Not the ‘No. 1 Threat’—or Even Among the Top 5 Stephen F. Cohen |  professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton University, and a contributing editor of The Nation.See alsoCounterpunchSuddenly, I’m a ‘Russian Agent’! Dave Lindorff, investigative reporter, founding member of...