{"id":66569,"date":"2024-09-05T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/05\/us-arms-advantage-over-russia-and-china-threatens-stability-experts-warn"},"modified":"2024-09-05T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:01:49","slug":"us-arms-advantage-over-russia-and-china-threatens-stability-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66569","title":{"rendered":"US arms advantage over Russia and China threatens stability, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academics say vulnerability of the two countries\u2019 nuclear launch sites makes dangerous mistakes more likely<\/p>\n<p>The US and its allies are capable of threatening and destroying all of Russia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/01\/china-building-missile-silos-nuclear\">China\u2019s nuclear launch sites<\/a> with conventional weapons, creating what two experts describe as a potentially unstable geopolitical situation.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Dan Plesch and Manuel Galileo, from Soas University of London, describe a \u201cquiet revolution in military affairs\u201d reflecting increased US military power relative to Moscow and Beijing, particularly in missile technology.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/05\/us-arms-advantage-over-russia-and-china-threatens-stability-experts-warn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academics say vulnerability of the two countries\u2019 nuclear launch sites makes dangerous mistakes more likelyThe US and its allies are capable of threatening and destroying all of Russia and China\u2019s nuclear launch sites with conventional weapons, creatin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,221,441,419,45,473,47,1051,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-nuclear-weapons","category-russia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-weapons-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66569\/revisions\/66570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}