China’s Nuclear Arsenal and European Security
This project explores how China’s nuclear weapons build-up will affect European security interests.
China’s nuclear arsenal is expanding. While much remains uncertain about its trajectory, including the speed, scope and purpose of China’s nuclear build-up, it is clear that a larger Chinese nuclear arsenal will have a range of implications, including potential increases in the US’s nuclear stockpile, a greater emphasis on theatre nuclear options in a regional crisis, and challenges to global arms control regimes.
This project seeks to encourage a debate about the implications of these developments for European security, including asking what actions NATO and the two European nuclear-weapon states, the UK and France, should take in response.
The project is a collaboration between RUSI’s Proliferation and Nuclear Policy and Military Sciences teams.
