Biden’s plan to expose nuclear secrets to Moscow and Beijing

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In a stunning decision to potentially expose vital national security secrets to America’s top adversaries, the Biden administration last month quietly invited Russia and China to send observers to upcoming nuclear weapons-related tests at the U.S. Nevada Test Site. While Beijing and Moscow haven’t responded yet, Congress should prohibit such visits and invest in the U.S. nuclear deterrent instead.

The catalyst for this misguided effort was an explosive and misleading news report last month that created a false equivalency between China’s and Russia’s actions at its own test sites and U.S. activities in Nevada.

Increased activities at test sites in China and Russia, we are supposed to believe, are merely responses to commercial satellite pictures showing increased activities at our own test site in the U.S. The proposed response? Give our adversaries the keys to the nuclear kingdom to avoid misunderstandings — even in the absence of any reciprocal measures by Beijing or Moscow.

Anthony Ruggiero is a senior fellow and senior director of the Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor.