Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year came as no surprise to the West. But the Kremlin’s recent ability to escalate without pushback is surprising. Last month Russian jet fighters in Syria harassed U ...

Since the detonation of the first atomic bombs in 1945, the global security architecture has been fundamentally shaped by the logic of nuclear deterrence (Knopf 2022). The unprecedented destructive ...

Deterrence polemics have all but disappeared from most newspapers and television, and with each new theme for our national security strategy, we are reading, seeing, and hearing less about deterrence.