China’s military wants to put its relatively small nuclear arsenal on hair-trigger alert for the first time, according to newly translated documents. That’s not good. Such a radical departure from the country’s longtime nuclear policy could pose a threat not only to the U.S., but also to China itself. Gregory Kulacki, an analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists, discovered evidence of this potential policy change in a number of Chinese military documents. He published a paper this week that provides the details of what he found. Why is the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) considering such a major policy change? According to Kulacki, it’s due to U.S. intimidation. “It’s a combination of factors,” ...
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