Back in March of this year, US President Joe Biden approved a revised strategy called the “Guidelines for the Use of Nuclear Weapons”, which the White House did not announce, The New York Times reported.
She explains that the review is related, in particular, to “China’s rapid expansion of its nuclear arsenal.”
“The Pentagon believes that over the next decade, China’s stockpiles (nuclear weapons – IF-U) will compete in terms of size and variety with those of the United States and Russia,” the publication notes.
It writes that another factor was the fact that the US considers it necessary to “prepare for possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia and North Korea.”
In June, the White House National Security Council’s senior director for arms control and nonproliferation, Pranay Waddy, also referred to a document that, for the first time, examines in detail whether the United States is prepared to respond to nuclear crises that erupt simultaneously or sequentially, with nuclear and non-nuclear weapons . According to him, the new strategy emphasizes “the need to simultaneously contain Russia, China and North Korea.”
In the past, the likelihood that America’s adversaries could coordinate nuclear threats seemed unlikely, the publication said.
