The United States military will soon be unable to deter the strategic nuclear threat posed by both Russia and China and must expand the American arsenal rapidly, according to a bipartisan congressional commission.
The nation will soon face two states with nuclear power equal to that of the United States, the report by the Congressional Commission on the Nuclear Posture of the United States said, at a time when the risk of a conflict with Moscow and Beijing is increasing.
The 12-member bipartisan commission was chaired by Madelyn R. Creedon, former Energy Department deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration during the Obama administration. Former Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican and a leading advocate for strengthening U.S. nuclear forces, was the vice chair.
“It is apparent from the report that there is much more that we should be doing to ensure our military, and particularly our nuclear forces, are capable of deterring two near-peer nuclear adversaries at the same time,” the Mississippi Republican said. The commission also called for a strengthening conventional military forces to deter Russia in Europe and China in Asia.
The military also needs to speed up building long-range non-nuclear precision strike weapons in greater quantities than currently planned. China’s stunning nuclear surge was not factored in the current U.S. nuclear modernization program, the report said. In addition to expanding its long-range missiles, Beijing also has deployed and is building new intercontinental systems, including hypersonic missiles and a space-transiting “fractional or multiple orbital bombardment systems” that the report said “could potentially threaten an unwarned preemptive attack on the United States.
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