The Foreign Policy Essay: A Nuclear Asia?

By Elbridge Colby
Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 10:00 AM

Editor’s Note: Fears about nuclear weapons and concerns about East Asia typically reside in separate worlds. But one risk of a rising China that is usually ignored is how it affects the risk of nuclear war. Elbridge Colby of the Center for a New American Security contends that the changing military balance in East Asia has profound implications for the salience of nuclear weapons. The good news is that both the United States and China can at least mitigate—though not eliminate—the danger
http://www.lawfareblog.com/2015/02/the-foreign-policy-essay-a-nuclear-asia/