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Resources: Nuclear Weapons Policy & Strategy Publications
January, 2021 | P-14248
The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review points to the differential in U.S.-Russia non-strategic nuclear
forces as driving a perception that Russia's "greater number and variety of non-strategic nuclear
systems provide a coercive advantage in crises and at lower levels of conflict." This paper
characterizes the nature and meaning of asymmetries between non-strategic nuclear forces of the
United States and Russia.