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A China-US war in space: The after-action report

By Henry Sokolski | Disruptive Technologies

view of Earth from space on shortest day of year

Why the final frontier should not become the final battleground

By John Mecklin | Disruptive Technologies

The A1 Verse: Not very fine and not very mine

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Special Topics

Joe Biden in 2012, when he was vice president, raises a toast in honor of Chinese President Xi at a State Luncheon at the State Department. Credit: US Department of State. Accessed via Flickr.

How Biden can improve European relations while pivoting to Asia

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

DF-41 ICBM launchers at parade in Beijing in September 2020. The DF-41 is now operational in at least two brigades. Source: Chinese Ministry of Defense

Nuclear Notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2021

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Chinese President Xi Jinping. Credit: www.kremlin.ru. via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. Cropped.

China’s silence on nuclear arms buildup fuels speculation on motives

By Tong Zhao | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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The A1 Verse: Xi is risen

By Thomas Gaulkin | Special Topics

The A1 Verse: Opposites attract

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Satellite images show hundreds of missile missile silos under construction under inflatable domes at three missile fields and a training area in north-central China. Satellite images © 2021 Maxar Technologies and © 2021 Planet Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. For media licensing options, please contact fas@fas.org

China’s nuclear missile silo expansion: From minimum deterrence to medium deterrence

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao LIjian.

After the lab-leak theory, US-Chinese relations head downhill

By Yanzhong Huang | Disruptive Technologies

CDC director Robert Redfield CNN coronavirus interview Sanjay Gupta

Did former CDC director offer a ham sandwich theory of COVID-19? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity

The Wuhan Institute of Virology.

WHO: COVID-19 didn’t leak from a lab. Also WHO: Maybe it did

By Filippa Lentzos | Disruptive Technologies