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Geopolitics Decanted is a podcast featuring geopolitical analysis and in-depth expert interviews on topics ranging from War in Ukraine, Great Power Competition with China, changing nature of warfare, sanctions and export controls, semiconductors and cybersecurity. This is a podcast for people who care about the details and

It is hosted by Dmitri Alperovitch, Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator (www.silverado.org), a Washington DC-based non-profit with a mission to promote prosperity and global competitiveness for America and its allies by accelerating bipartisan strategic, economic and technological policy solutions.

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Why America's Nuclear Deterrence Strategy Needs to Change

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Vipin Narang about entering the New Nuclear Age and changes that the U.S. has to make to its nuclear deterrence posture.

Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Vipin Narang, a former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, a portfolio which includes U.S nuclear weapons employment strategy, about why we are now entering the New Nuclear Age and the urgent changes that the United States has to make to its nuclear deterrence posture and strategy. They also debate the utility of counterforce vs countervalue nuclear targeting approaches and how believable the U.S. extended nuclear deterrence is to allies.

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 00:57 Israel-Iran War
  • 11:47 CAT5 Hurricane of Nuclear Threats
  • 13:50 Is China Preparing to Fight a Nuclear War?
  • 18:04 Debating Counterforce vs. Countervalue Nuclear Targeting Strategies
  • 24:32 Is Nuclear Extended Deterrence Believable to Allies?
  • 40:02 Is Pakistan Building ICBMs to Target the United States?
  • 42:44 Does America Need Mobile ICBM Launchers?

How to Survive the New Nuclear Age by Vipin Narang and Pranay Vaddi: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-survive-new-nuclear-age-narang-vaddi

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