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China's Unquenchable Thirst for Nuclear Weapons
In a series of interviews with Warrior Maven: Center for Military Modernization, Tim Morrison discusses China’s nuclear capabilities, Russian tactics in Ukraine, and the hypersonic missile gap. VIDEO
STARTing over on Arms Control?
In last week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma, we heard from Professor Jane Vaynman how emerging technologies may influence the future of arms control. In this week’s episode, we hear from Tim Morrison, currently of the Hudson Institute and formerly a deputy advisor to the president for national security in the Trump administration, how arms control is influenced by different positions staked out by the major U.S. political parties.
It’s Time for Biden to Get Tough on Russia | National Review
President Joe Biden holds a news conference at the end of the G7 summit at Cornwall Airport Newquay, England, June 13, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) All eyes will be on the upcoming Biden–Putin summit. On April 13, as tens of thousands of Russian military forces deployed along the Ukrainian border, U.S. president Joe Biden picked up the phone and called Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.
Why ‘Plutonium Pits’ Are Key to Updating Our Aging Nuclear Arsenal
(Photograph by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.) The Biden administration has begun a series of reviews of the U.S. national security posture, including its nuclear posture. This will soon lead to a more formal nuclear posture review (NPR) The administration would be wise to maintain the bipartisan consensus to fully modernize the U.S. nuclear deterrent, including its production infrastructure, as part of that review.
How Beijing Is Testing the Biden Administration
Chinese leader Xi Jinping. (Photograph by Rao Aimin/Xinhua/Getty Images.) The Chinese government welcomed President Joe Biden to office by sanctioning 28 former Trump administration officials (and their families) on Inauguration Day. Since then, the Chinese Communist Party has continued to test the new administration to assess whether it is prepared to defend American interests. Many security experts predicted the next sizing up from the party leadership in Beijing would be in the Taiwan Straits.
Defeating the Chinese Communist Party: What Role for Philanthropists?
In her seminal work on the history of the philanthropic community’s role in winning the Cold War (“Victory”), Nadia Schadlow methodically indexed the role philanthropists played in rallying the United States to better understand and defeat the Soviet Union.
Disarming Amid an Arms Race
In a recent issue of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, our military's senior commander for nuclear forces, U.S. Navy Admiral Charles "Chas" Richards, wrote, "[m]ore than a decade ago, Russia began aggressively modernizing its nuclear forces … Russia is building new and novel systems, such as hypersonic glide vehicles, nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered torpedoes and cruise missiles, and other capabilities." China, too is in the midst of a significant nuclear build-up behind what has been...
Disarming Amid an Arms Race
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Biden Administration China Policy: Senior Appointees Should Answer Key Questions
Staffers adjust U.S. and Chinese flags before the opening session of trade negotiations in Beijing, China, February 14, 2019.
GBSD: The Case for Modernization So Obvious Even Two Think Tankers Get It
This past Monday, Admiral Charles Richard, Commander of the United States Strategic Command, pushed back on the small but vocal disarmament advocacy clerisy who are trying to pressure the incoming Biden administration to eliminate the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program.
How the National Security Team Affects Nuclear Weapons Policy
With a new administration about to take the reins of power, one has been reminded how critical a team will be. A mostly mainstream set of cabinet picks suggests the policies of Joe Biden will continue those under Barack Obama. What have these nominated officials learned from how the world has changed in the last four years? The Senate will soon have to evaluate what hundreds of nominees think of these issues and more. Read Full Article »
Chemical Weapons in Russia an Early Test for Biden
Alexei Navalny. (Photograph by Vladimir Gerdo/TASS/Getty Images.) Despite the Kremlin’s ongoing attacks against the United States and its allies, some influential foreign policy voices are already counseling the incoming Biden administration to prioritize arms control with Moscow. Those voices would do well to stop and consider the current threat Moscow poses to arms control itself.
How the national security team affects nuclear weapons policy
With a new administration about to take the reins of power, one is reminded of the adage that “personnel is policy.” To date, a largely mainstream set of cabinet picks suggests Joe Biden’s policies will look like continuity with the Obama administration. What have these would-be officials learned from how the world has changed in the last four years? The Senate will soon have the responsibility to evaluate what hundreds of nominees think about these questions and more.
The “China Dream” and the African Reality: The Role of Ideology in PRC-Africa Relations
A Chinese policeman walks past a memorial to the late South African leader Nelson Mandela outside the South African embassy in Beijing on December 11, 2013. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Read Full Report Executive Summary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes its worldview and political and economic model overseas, particularly in the developing world, albeit in a very different manner than it did in the era of Mao Zedong.
After 20 Years, Let the NNSA Stand on Its Own
On September 17th, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the current partnership between the Departments of Defense and Energy concerning the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
Learning the Right Lessons From Nagasaki
Rebeccah Heinrichs & Tim Morrison, Newsweek August 10, 2020 Seventy-five years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days after dropping one on Hiroshima. No nuclear weapon has been used by any nation in war since. The task now is to work to ensure no nation uses them in war again.
Learning the Right Lessons From Nagasaki
Seventy-five years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, three days after dropping one on Hiroshima. No nuclear weapon has been used by any nation in war since. The task now is to work to ensure no nation uses them in war again. Our past success should not lead us to naively assume that it will become easier the more time lapses since the events that ended the Second World War; in many ways it will be harder and more complex.
Testimony: U.S.-China: Winning the Economic Competition
Testimony before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic Policy July 22, 2020. View PDF Chairman Cotton, Ranking Member Cortez Masto, thank you for the invitation to testify and thank you for holding this hearing on this most important topic. It is not too much to say that the competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is the great power contest of this and the next generation (at least). Don’t take my word for it.
The Other Immigration Crisis
KleptoCast 8: Belinda Li talks to Seto Bagdoyan, director of Audit Services at the Government Accountability Office, about the EB-5 visa program. The collection of rights and responsibilities that we call citizenship has formed the bedrock of democracy since ancient times. But in many Western countries, it is now up for sale. For a substantial fee, it is possible to speed up the immigration process and acquire a passport with almost no questions asked.
Transcript: Is Britain Still a Global Intelligence Power?
View PDF Following is the full transcript of the June 8th, 2020 Hudson online livestream event titled Is Britain Still a Global Intelligence Power? Ben Judah: Hello and welcome. My name is Ben Judah. I’m a research fellow at the Hudson Institute. I’m thrilled to be joined here today by Sir John Sawers GCMG, the former Chief of Britain’s legendary Secret Intelligence Service also known as MI6. Today, Sir John is the Executive Chairman of Newbridge Advisory.
Opinion | Russia Flouts Another Treaty. So We’re Leaving It.
Arms control treaties can be a powerful national security tool. But too often arms control proponents — those who seek to control weapons by agreement — get confused: Is arms control a means to a national security end or the end itself? President Trump has never been afraid to step back, evaluate what the United States and its allies gain from an agreement and how a potential adversary benefits from it, and decide what’s in the best interest of the security of the American people.
Video Event | Special Presidential Envoy Marshall Billingslea on the Future of Nuclear Arms Control
Please be advised: This event will be premiering at 3:00 p.m. EDT, Thursday, May 21. You may view this event on Hudson’s website at or after its premiere time on this event page. Join Hudson Institute for a discussion with Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea. In his first public remarks since being appointed by President Trump, Ambassador Billingslea will share his plans for arms control negotiations with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China.
Controlling Chinese weapons: The Wuhan virus and nuclear weapons
The world is in the grips of a pandemic with economic, political, and strategic consequences and, most importantly, a human toll we don’t yet understand. Will the loss of life rival the scale of the Spanish flu of 1918 or the swine flu of 2009? We don’t yet know. There will be time to assess what could have been done better in the response to the virus.
No, the White House Didn’t ‘Dissolve’ Its Pandemic Response Office | RealClearPolitics
President Trump gets his share of criticism — some warranted, much not. But recently the president’s critics have chosen curious ground to question his response to the coronavirus outbreak since it began spreading from Wuhan, China, in December. It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Washington Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness.
No, the White House didn't 'dissolve' its pandemic response office. I was there.
Tim Morrison is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council. President Trump gets his share of criticism - some warranted, much not. But recently the president's critics have chosen curious ground to question his response to the coronavirus outbreak since it began spreading from Wuhan, China, in December.
Ending China’s Arms-Control Free Ride
President Trump recently declared that he wants to include China in the next nuclear-arms-control treaty, an objective consistent with his National Security Strategy (NSS) and his Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy (NDS). While this seems like a policy goal that arms-control and U.S. nuclear-disarmament advocates would embrace wholeheartedly, they didn’t. Why?
China & Arms Control: American Policy Confronts Major New Nuclear Threat
A nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy during a military exercise in the South China Sea in 2018. (Stringer/Reuters) American policy should deal with this major new nuclear threat. President Trump recently declared that he wants to include China in the next nuclear-arms-control treaty, an objective consistent with his National Security Strategy (NSS) and his Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy (NDS).
Coronavirus' danger is made worse by the control China has over U.S. health care
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently warned of the “grave” situation posed by the “accelerating spread” of the coronavirus in China. Xi’s frank warnings were unusual for the seniormost official of the Chinese Communist Party and reveal the depth of the concern at the highest levels of the country’s leadership. Already, nearly 500 people have died and tens of thousands more have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. It has been found in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Europe and the United States.
Opinion | Coronavirus' danger is made worse by the control China has over U.S. health care
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently warned of the “grave” situation posed by the “accelerating spread” of the coronavirus in China. Xi’s frank warnings were unusual for the seniormost official of the Chinese Communist Party and reveal the depth of the concern at the highest levels of the country’s leadership. It’s not hard to imagine that Xi might see a really bad flu season as an opportunity to leverage his control of medicine production to achieve an end.
China Is Not a Coronavirus Role Model
Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on January 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Naohiko Hatta/Getty Images) (Naohiko Hatta/Getty Images) The coronavirus pandemic has elicited some strange jealousy for China’s authoritarianism.
Huawei's Threat to National Security - by Tim Morrison
Huawei's Threat to National Security Tim Morrison In an interview on BBC World at One, Tim Morrison discusses the national security threat that Huawei could pose to the UK.
To Preserve the Dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency, the United States Can’t Let China Get Ahead on Cryptocurrency
Elephants in the Room To preserve the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, the United States can’t let China get ahead on cryptocurrency. A woman uses her phone as she walks past an ATM for the digital currency bitcoin in Hong Kong on Dec. 18, 2017. Bitcoin has soared in recent weeks, breaking numerous records, and has risen more than 20-fold since the start of 2017.
Put U.S. Post-INF Missiles into Production
Rebeccah Heinrichs & Tim Morrison, Defense One December 21, 2019 The U.S. has waited too long to mimic Chinese intermediate-range weapons. Recent tests of U.S. missiles once banned by the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty are a welcome step. They provide an essential response to Russia's violations of the now-defunct INF. They help regain an advantage ceded to the People's Republic of China, which was never constrained by the pact.
Put US Post-INF Missiles into Production
The U.S. has waited too long to mimic Chinese intermediate-range weapons. Recent tests of U.S. missiles once banned by the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty are a welcome step. They provide an essential response to Russia’s violations of the now-defunct INF. They help regain an advantage ceded to the People’s Republic of China, which was never constrained by the pact. And they better position the United States to seek new international agreements on arms.
Astral Out of Home Announces the Québec Market Winners for the 8th Edition of the CARTE BLANCHE FOR CREATIVES Competition
About Astral Out of Home Astral Out of Home, a division of Bell Media, is one of Canada’s leading out-of-home advertising companies with over 30,000 advertising faces strategically located in the British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Québec, and Nova Scotia markets.
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