{"653046":{"#nid":"653046","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Nunn School Alum Writes Times Opinion Piece on Chinese Nuclear Arsenal","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETong Zhao, Ph.D. International Affairs, Science, and Technology 2014, recently published an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/15\/opinion\/we-need-to-pay-attention-to-chinas-nuclear-build-up.html\u0022\u003Eopinion guest essay\u003C\/a\u003E in \u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E. The article is titled \u0026ldquo;Why is China Building up its Nuclear Arsenal?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZhao, a nuclear policy expert based out of Beijing, answers his question by saying that China is increasing its nuclear capacity in pursuit of a recognition of \u0026ldquo;mutual vulnerability\u0026rdquo; with the United States. Mutual vulnerability comes when both parties cannot threaten nuclear war without risking their own destruction. He argues that the United States should recognize mutual vulnerability with China similarly to how they did with the USSR during the Cold War, as the risks are too high if they don\u0026rsquo;t.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETong Zhao, Ph.D. IAST 2014, published the guest opinion essay\u0026nbsp;in The New York Times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tong Zhao, Ph.D. IAST 2014, published the guest opinion essay in The New York Times."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2021-11-19 16:58:22","changed_gmt":"2021-11-19 16:59:26","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-11-19T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"592380":{"id":"592380","type":"image","title":"Tong Zhao IAST Alumnus","body":null,"created":"1496413841","gmt_created":"2017-06-02 14:30:41","changed":"1496413841","gmt_changed":"2017-06-02 14:30:41","alt":"Tong Zhao, IAST Alumnus","file":{"fid":"225757","name":"tong_zhao.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tong_zhao.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tong_zhao.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":349827,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tong_zhao.jpg?itok=5_Pz6rwf"}}},"media_ids":["592380"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4032","name":"Nuclear Weapons"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs | School of Public Policy\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}