Playing nice keeps us all safer: By working together, Russia, China and the U.S. could thwart hypersonic missile development globally, reducing risk of war
A new report issued by Santa Monica, California-based nonprofit global policy think tank RAND Corp. suggested that despite their differences, Russia, China, and the United States should band together to get rid of an impending security threat – the emergence of hypersonic missiles across the three powerful nations. Hypersonic missiles, which include both hypersonic cruise missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles, are a new breed of danger, for they both have the ability to fly at speeds faster than 5,000 kilometers per hour, which is more than five times faster than traditional cruise missiles. The diffusion of hypersonic technology is getting a head start in Europe, Australia, India, and Japan, with many countries starting to take interest in such technology. Proliferation could traverse multiple borders if hypersonic technology is made available on world markets, marking less than enough time to prevent proliferation. “Hypersonic missile proliferation would increase the chan