President Joe Biden must make rebuilding the nation’s strategic nuclear deterrent a top priority.
The United States’s ability to deter its adversaries from attacking us and our closest allies and partners is at its lowest level since the end of the Cold War. China and Russia’s nuclear arsenals are growing unchecked, along with their ambitions, while America’s anemic response leaves it open to their coercion.
For example, the United States has not produced a new war reserve plutonium pit since 1989, and current efforts to restart the capability are years behind schedule. After not having built a new nuclear weapon or produced nuclear fissile material in almost three and a half decades, the U.S. must relearn how to enrich uranium for defense purposes.
To ensure that our enterprise is on schedule and will remain viable for the next half century, one person is essential: the president of the United States. Only the commander in chief can infuse the nuclear enterprise with the sense of urgency needed to field a credible deterrent in the 2030s. To this end, the president should: The president must make the case that nuclear weapons are the ultimate guarantor of their freedom and prosperity.
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