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Rand Issues Commentary Entitled 'U.S. Doesn't Need More Nuclear Weapons to Counter China's New Missile Silos'
October 19, 2021
SANTA MONICA, California, Oct. 19 (TNSPol) -- Rand issued the following commentary:

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By Edward Geist

Policy Researcher

The discovery of what appear to be hundreds of new missile silos under construction in China has inspired arguments that imply the United States needs more nuclear weapons. Matthew Kroenig, a Defense Department adviser during the Trump administration, suggested in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed that "the Pentagon . . .

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