Beijing Develops a Counterforce Nuclear Weapon Doctrine

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

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)

Peter Huessy appears on the John Batchelor Show to discuss Beijing’s newly developed counterforce nuclear weapon doctrine.

Arms Control and Nonproliferation

Beijing Develops a Counterforce Nuclear Weapon Doctrine

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