China's Nuclear Ambitions Set to Transform Global Power Dynamics.

China is on track to massively expand its nuclear arsenal, potentially making it an atomic peer of the United States and Russia, while Russia suspends the last major arms control treaty. This new reality is prompting a broad rethinking of American nuclear strategy that few anticipated a dozen years ago, when President Barack Obama envisioned a world that was inexorably moving toward eliminating all nuclear weapons. The United States is now facing questions about how to manage a three-way nuclear rivalry, which upends much of the deterrence strategy that has successfully avoided nuclear war.