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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
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Chinese sailors stand next to a submarine rescue ship Hongzehu from the PLA Navy as it is docked on April 23, 2024, in Qingdao, China.(Kevin Frayer via Getty Images)
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrives at the Special European Council in Brussels on March 6, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)
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Taiwan's armed forces hold two days of routine drills to show combat readiness ahead of Lunar New Year holidays at a military base on January 11, 2023, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Annabelle Chih via Getty Images)
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Security forces reporting to Syria's transitional government patrol the streets of Dummar, during an operation to seize weapons and hunt down armed supporters of the ousted Assad leadership on January 15, 2025. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images)
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HMAS Sydney fires Royal Australian Navy’s first Naval Strike Missile during a long-planned, live-fire sinking exercise off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on July 17, 2024. (DVIDS)
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A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast of a North Korean military parade showcasing a record number of nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missiles in Seoul on February 9, 2023. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
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Apache test detonation on Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on July 8, 1956. (Getty Images)
Experts
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
