The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained intact over the last 30-plus years.

This has not remained without challenges as the responsibility of the West to lead diplomatic resolutions with arms control agreements has been tested by Russia, refused by China, and taunted by Iran in developing destabilizing uranium-enrichment facilities.

The Trump administration, U.S. military leaders and policymakers must use strategic thinking in their efforts to deter nuclear aggression in the minds of American and allied partners’ adversaries. History is being written today to redefine the future of strategic nuclear deterrence, nuclear modernization a

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