Is China Seeking Nuclear Superiority? Unpacking 2025 Developments

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Is China Seeking Nuclear Superiority? Unpacking 2025 Developments

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January 23, 2026    
10:00 am – 11:00 am

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In 2025, China unveiled two new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), commissioned two additional ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), and reportedly deployed at least 100 ICBMs across 320 newly constructed silos. Emerging research also suggests China may have the capability to produce smaller nuclear warheads, raising the prospect of fielding thousands of warheads in the future. At the same time, China advanced efforts toward establishing a national missile defense system.

 

These developments lead to a critical question: Is China pursuing nuclear superiority? Join us as Rick Fisher provides expert analysis on these trends and their implications for global security.

Speakers

Peter Huessy 

Host of Huessy Seminars, Mr. Peter Huessy is President of his own defense consulting firm, Geostrategic Analysis, founded in 1981, and through 2021, Director of Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute on Aerospace Studies. He was the senior defense consultant at the National Defense University Foundation for 22 years. He was the National Security Fellow at the AFPC, and Senior Defense Consultant at the Air Force Association from 2011-2016. Mr. Huessy has served as an expert defense and national security analyst for over 50 years, helping his clients cover congressional activities, arms control group efforts, nuclear armed states actions, and US administration nuclear related policy, budgets, and strategies, while monitoring budget and policy developments on nuclear deterrence, ICBM modernization, nuclear arms control, and overall nuclear modernization. He has also covered nuclear terrorism, counterterrorism, immigration, state-sponsored terrorism, missile defense, weapons of mass destruction, especially US-Israeli joint defense efforts, nuclear deterrence, arms control, proliferation, as well as tactical and strategic air, airlift, space and nuclear matters and such state and non-state actors as North Korea, China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al Qaeda. This also includes monitoring activities of think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and other US government departments, as well as projecting future actions of Congress in this area. His specialty is developing and implementing public policy campaigns to secure support for important national security objectives. And analyzing nuclear related technology and its impact on public policy, a study of which he prepared for the Aerospace Corporation in 2019.

Rick Fisher

Author, China’s Military Modernization, Building for Regional and Global Reach, Praeger, 2008 (Hardcover), Stanford University Press, 2010 (Softcover), Chinese edition by Taiwan Ministry of Defense in 2011 and Senior Fellow, International Assessment and Strategy Center (IASC)

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