Join the Brookings Institution for a panel discussion of Russian, Chinese and American challenges to nuclear stability, their implications for the future of strategic stability and how they should inform U.S. policy going forward.

Challenges to nuclear stability appear to be growing. Emerging technologies such as cyber, space, AI, hypersonic vehicles and remote sensing pose new potential threats to the survivability of second-strike forces, while Russia, China and the United States are all undergoing significant nuclear modernization efforts. The Pentagon’s newly released China Military Power report highlights changes to China’s approach in particular, emphasizing that the country appears to be undergoing rapid qualitative and quantitative improvements to its nuclear arsenal.

On November 17, Brookings will host an event to discuss these and other developments, their implications for the future of strategic stability, and how they should inform U.S. policy going forward.

Viewers can submit questions via email to [email protected] or on Twitter using #StrategicStability.

Speakers

Patricia Kim, David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution

Caitlin Talmadge, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings Institution

Melanie W. Sisson, Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Brookings Institution

Thomas Wright, Director, Center on the United States and Europe; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings Institution

Michael E. O'Hanlon, Director of Research, Foreign Policy; Co-Director, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Africa Security Initiative; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair, Brookings Institution