A New Nuclear Arms Race Is Looming

In June 2019, the director of the Pentagon’s main intelligence agency made an eyebrow-raising allegation about Russia and its nuclear programs: Moscow is testing its atomic weapons."The U.S. government, including the Intelligence Community, has assessed that Russia has conducted nuclear weapons tests that have created nuclear yield,” Lieutenant General Robert Ashley said.China may also be conducting its own tests, Ashley added, possibly by using “zero-yield” methods in which no actual atomic explosion -- a fission chain…