Strategic Studies Quarterly, Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL / Published August 26, 2020
What strategy will defend the United States against cyberattacks of consequence, and what is required to implement that strategy?
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Lt Col Geoffrey Steeves, USAF Will the considerable challenges create uncertainty about how quickly the United States could resume nuclear testing if warranted?
Can the United States achieve greater security by regulating and controlling synthetic biology to prevent unintended consequences?
Must EU member states seek greater autonomy and reconfigure the transatlantic architecture to generate military power through the EU?
Are five specific challenges associated with contemporary international security decreasing the effectiveness of the NPT?
If America retreats from the civilian nuclear field, will revisionist powers become the global leaders in nuclear science in the twenty-first century—with adverse implications for US national security?
W. Michael Guillot, Editor
Being the editor of a journal is never supposed to be a sentence, so I have elected to pardon myself and make way for a successor.
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