A quality inspector checks crankshafts at a factory that produces the mechanical component for the domestic market and export in Binzhou, China, on December 10, 2024. (Getty Images)
A 40th Flight Test Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon flies with a Stand-in Attack Weapon on its rail on November 7, 2024, near Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. (US Air Force photo)
Japan's Economic Revitalisation Minister Ryosei Akazawa poses with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington, DC on May 1, 2025. (STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)
An image of an electronic wafer is displayed at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Museum of Innovation in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on November 21, 2024. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)
The final piece of the underwater hull of the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is lowered into place at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on September 28, 2018. (US Navy photo courtesy of Huntington Ingalls Industries by John Whalen)
A destroyed aircraft at Khartoum International Airport in Sudan is seen on April 17, 2025, after the Sudanese Armed Forces took control of the airport from the Rapid Support Forces. (Getty Images)
Yashar Parsie is a contributor to Hudson’s Keystone Defense Initiative.
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Yashar Parsie was a fellow in the Center for Russia and Europe at the United States Institute of Peace, a military legislative assistant in the United States Senate, and a researcher in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is part of the nuclear scholars initiative in the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast of a North Korean military parade showcasing a record number of nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Seoul on February 9, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)