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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
Missile Defense
Missile Defense
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The guided missile destroyer USS Barry conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea on November 21, 2022. (US Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist Molly Crawford)
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Military vehicles attend a rehearsal of the Victory Day parade on May 7, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Tian Bing/China News Service via Getty Images)
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People watch a television screen showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch at the Seoul Railway Station on August 17, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on September 30, 2022. (Kremlin)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow might use nuclear weapons if the West attacks Russian territory. (PHOTO: GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/KREMLIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
In the Media
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An RT-2PM2 intercontinental ballistic missile on display at Army Expo 2022 in Moscow's Patriot Park on August 20, 2022. (Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev during a Soviet-American summit on November 19, 1985. (RIA Novosti via Wikimedia Commons)
In the Media
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Vladimir Putin, together with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov, observed the main stage of the Vostok-2022 strategic command post exercise at the Sergeyevsky range in the Primorye Territory. (Kremlin)
In the Media
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North Korean People's Army soldiers march on September 9, 2018, in Pyongyang, North Korea, as part of a parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the nation's founding. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
Experts
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Timothy A. Walton
Senior Fellow, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
