The US Nuclear Shift to the Pacific: Implications for 'Strategic Stability'
Apr 2006, Vol. 151, No. 2
By David McDonough
Concerns over strategic nuclear capability (and vulnerability) will become a growing concern to North Korea and China, the two states most clearly identified in the possible nuclear contingency scenarios of the NPR. But even Russia will have concerns over the survivability of its deteriorating nuclear arsenal against expanding American qualitative nuclear apabilities, which would only be exacerbated by the growing American counter-force presence in the Pacific.
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By David McDonough
Concerns over strategic nuclear capability (and vulnerability) will become a growing concern to North Korea and China, the two states most clearly identified in the possible nuclear contingency scenarios of the NPR. But even Russia will have concerns over the survivability of its deteriorating nuclear arsenal against expanding American qualitative nuclear apabilities, which would only be exacerbated by the growing American counter-force presence in the Pacific.
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