Raymond Wang’s research examines the strategies and tools rising powers use to shape international order.
Hanna Notte represented CNS at the 2025 Munich Security Conference, which took place from 14-16 February.
Scholars and policy analysts have debated the health of the global nuclear order since the beginning of Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Nuclear-powered cargo ships are a particularly bad idea in an era of international terrorism and piracy.
The end of nuclear weapons testing is a significant nonproliferation success, yet concerns about its resumption persist.
Concerns over China’s rapid nuclear arsenal expansion have prompted global efforts to assess its implications, especially for NATO’s security.
Incentivizing China to see nuclear and risk reduction as beneficial rather than detrimental will require skillful U.S. diplomacy to leverage pressure from allies in Europe and regional states.
Over the past decade China doubled its combat missile brigades and unveiled new capabilities revealing its fears and conceptions about how future wars in the region will be conducted.
How will strategic relations among the US, Russia, and China be impacted as they work to implant stealthy malware to compromise each other’s nuclear weapon systems and critical infrastructures?
