The United States is considering boosting its nuclear arsenal based on the questionable belief that it’ll deter Russia and China from increasing theirs.
A deactivated Minuteman Missile on display in a Lewistowns park in Lewistown, Montana, on April 8, 2022. The military have hidden Minuteman III launch facilities on the grounds of privately-owned farms in Montana. There are over 400 Minuteman silos in the Great Plains Region.
Yet in the eyes of U.S. officials in Washington, the state of affairs in the world is getting increasingly hairy. The kinds of arms control negotiations that were so prevalent since the latter years of the Cold War are all but dead., the last major arms control accord signed between the U.S. and Russia, is essentially on life support after Russian President Vladimir Putin
And although Beijing continues to claim a “no first use” policy — i.e., China won’t be the first power to use a nuclear weapon under any circumstances — policies can change depending on the environment. Indeed, Chinese military documents leave open the prospect of junking this declaration in the event the Chinese People’s Liberation Army is at risk of losing a conventional war.
President Joe Biden’s administration has apparently calculated that a larger U.S. nuclear arsenal is the cure-all to these problems. The underlying logic is straightforward: By increasing warhead numbers, nuclear adversaries such as China and Russia will eventually come to the conclusion that they simply can’t outcompete the U.S. in this area and that throwing more money into a costly arms race is futile.
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