Magnus Langset Trøan

Nov 11, 2023 | realcleardefense.com | M. Taylor Fravel |Henrik Stålhane Hiim |Magnus Langset Trøan

Nov 10, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | M. Taylor Fravel |Henrik Stålhane Hiim |Magnus Langset Trøan |Farah Pandith

Among the many issues surrounding China’s ongoing military modernization, perhaps none has been more dramatic than its nuclear weapons program. For decades, the Chinese government was content to maintain a comparatively small nuclear force. As recently as 2020, China’s arsenal was little changed from previous decades and amounted to some 220 weapons, around five to six percent of either the U.S. or Russian stockpiles of deployed and reserve warheads.