{"id":20,"date":"2024-11-17T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/?p=20"},"modified":"2024-11-24T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T03:02:15","slug":"4-military-build-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Military Build-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Cold War\u2019s arms race wasted untold billions on weapons of mass destruction. Today, the same patterns are emerging. China\u2019s nuclear arsenal is expanding rapidly, the US has redeployed missiles to Europe, and NATO is strengthening its military presence near Russia\u2019s borders. The echoes of the past are undeniable\u2014Upper Heyford itself could easily be imagined back in operation under today\u2019s conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cold War\u2019s arms race wasted untold billions on weapons of mass destruction. Today, the same patterns are emerging. China\u2019s nuclear arsenal is expanding rapidly, the US has redeployed missiles to Europe, and NATO is strengthening its military presence near Russia\u2019s borders. The echoes of the past are undeniable\u2014Upper Heyford itself could easily be imagined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2nd-cold-war.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}