Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard. Photo: CPOA(Phot) Tam McDonald/MOD accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Open Government License.
On March 16, the United Kingdom announced it was significantly raising a self-imposed cap on its overall nuclear stockpile, from a previous target of 180 warheads by the mid-2020s to a new cap of 260. The decision was outlined in the United Kingdom’s Integrated Review, a landmark strategic update, which also said the country will no longer declare the size of its operational warhead stockpile (previously 120), or the numbers of warheads and operational missiles deployed on submarines (previously 40 and no more than 8, respectively). A previous review in 2015 had left open the possibility of a future change in nuclear posture, although the vaguely phrased caveat was not much noticed at the time.
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Former top officials are raising the alarm about Joe Biden s weakness
Several former top U.S. government officials have raised the alarm about Joe Biden s military agenda, warning that the Democrat is seen as a pushover by America s enemies.
Biden’s team is eyeing a progressive agenda that includes implementing new arm control treaties, reducing America’s stockpile of nuclear weapons, and significantly altering U.S. foreign policy.
However, warnings are now emerging from high-level experts that the agenda of the national security team that Biden is assembling is in for a big shock once they get up to date on the latest classified intelligence reports on what America’s adversaries, in particular China, have been up to lately.
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