Understanding Hypersonic Weapons: Managing the Allure …

Shannon Bugos and Kingston ReifAn Arms Control Association Report September 2021 Understanding Hypersonic Weapons: Managing the Allure and the RisksAbout the AuthorsShannon Bugos is a research associate at the Arms Control Association, where she focuses on nuclear disarmament, arms control, and Hypersonic weapons and emerging Reif is the director for disarmament and threat reduction policy at the Arms Control Association, where his work focuses on nuclear disarmament, deterrence, arms control, preventing nuclear terrorism, missile defense, and the defense authors would like to thank the Arms Control Association s Executive Director Daryl G.

and as China and Russia make headway in developing and deploying their own such weapons. The U.S. Department of Defense is funding no less than eight prototype hypersonic weapons programs with the aim of fielding an initial capability of at least some of those by 2022 amid a renewed emphasis on competition with Beijing and Moscow. Russia fielded

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