Arms Control and Nonproliferation

U.S. Marines with 1st Marine Division G-3 Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense platoon, I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), are led to a thorough decontamination station during exercise Steel Knight 23, on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 7, 2022. 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) and 1st Marine Division Marines executed a tactical site exploitation into a potentially contaminated environment. Exercise Steel Knight 23 provides 1st Marine Division and 3rd MAW an opportunity t
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Marines with 1st Marine Division G-3 Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense platoon take part in a decontamination drill at Camp Pendleton on December 7, 2022. (US Marine Corps photo by Daniel Childs)
Chinese nuclear missiles during a military parade on September 3, 2015, in Beijing, China. (Xinhua/Pan Xu via Getty Images)
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Chinese nuclear missiles during a military parade on September 3, 2015, in Beijing, China. (Xinhua/Pan Xu via Getty Images)
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in Simi Valley, California, on December 3, 2022. (US Secretary of Defense via Flickr)
Nuclear Missile Preparedness Drill National Security China Russia
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Rescue personnel evacuate mock victims from a subway train during a homeland defense emergency drill involving a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack in an urban environment in New York City on August 4, 2021. (Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)
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Associate Executive Director for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Programs at the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska
Adjunct Fellow
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