arms race
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Washington’s War in Ukraine: Narrowing Options, Growing Consequences
Russia’s use of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in eastern Ukraine represents an unprecedented escalation in what began as a US proxy war against Russia in 2014. Continue reading
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Starting to Crack a Hard Target: U.S. Intelligence Efforts Against the Soviet Missile Program through 1957
U.S. Learned of the First ICBM Test from a Soviet Press Release and the Second from a Remark Made to a French Politician UNAWARE OF SPUTNIK I AND II UNTIL THEY WERE IN ORBIT Continue reading
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Why Would Trump Want An Arms Race?
US President Donald Trump has announced his intention to withdraw from the INF Treaty and resume production of the very missiles that the treaty prohibited, missiles that are designed to reach Russian targets from Europe. So what does this mean? That Washington has decided to use defence spending to bring Moscow to its knees or… Continue reading