Can the West Deter Russia’s Nuclear Threats?
That is what we are now facing in Ukraine, and may soon face with respect to Taiwan: a nuclear threat we are not now capable of fully deterring.
However, unless the United States also moves forward aggressively and builds a robust national missile defense, the end of the ABM Treaty will be for naught—and nuclear blackmail and coercion will consequently remain an increasingly normal part of great power competition.
Peter Huessy is Senior Defense Fellow at the Hudson Institute. These views are his own.
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