We take our conversation about ‘role’ and ‘reliance’ into a second podcast, where we share our opinions of Tyler Bowen’s May 15, 2026 article in War on the Rocks: “Restrain and Hedge: A New U.S. Nuclear Strategy for a Two-Peer World.” In his article, Tyler Argues for a U.S. strategy that deemphasizes damage limitation as an embrace of “nuclear restraint.” Instead, he proposes that the United States pursues an arms control framework with both Russia and China while improving the U.S. nuclear enterprise and defense industrial base to prepare the United States for an environment where arms control endeavors fail a trilateral arms race is unavoidable.

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