{"id":290014,"date":"2026-08-05T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=290014"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:34:23","slug":"pentagon-drafting-new-nuclear-strategy-focused-on-china-and-russia-nbc-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/290014\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon drafting new nuclear strategy focused on China and Russia, NBC News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pentagon is drafting a new US nuclear strategy that emphasizes the possible use of shorter-range tactical weapons in case of a regional war with China or Russia, NBC News<\/a> writes, referring to five people familiar with the plans.<\/p>\n

The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the US commander in chief during crises.<\/p>\n

The drafting of the strategy is reportedly being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the US under secretary of defense for policy.<\/p>\n

Under the current strategy, the United States says China must not be allowed to use its expanding nuclear capabilities to strengthen its influence in the Indo-Pacific region. At the same time, Washington is prepared to take action if Russia becomes a more serious threat to NATO.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pentagon is drafting a new US nuclear strategy that emphasizes the possible use of shorter-range tactical weapons in case of a regional war with China or Russia, NBC News writes, referring to five people familiar with the plans. The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the US commander in chief during crises. The drafting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":289965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290019,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290014\/revisions\/290019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}