“I don’t know what weapons will be used in the Third World War, but the Fourth World War will be fought with sticks and stones,” Albert Einstein once said. The American generals do not agree with the great scientist. At the beginning of this century, in the depths of the Pentagon, a strategy of “non-nuclear rapid global strike” was born, which should provide America with power over the world without destroying human civilization, and the development of corresponding missile technologies is underway. The answer to these attempts was the irresistible Russian hypersonic missile systems “Dagger” and “Avangard”; other countries that found themselves in the path of American hegemony are also working on their own strategic weapons systems. In this book, James M. Acton is an American physicist, an expert on deterrence issues, disarmament, non-proliferation and nuclear energy - talks about the revolutions that have already taken place and further prospects for the new global arms race unfolding before our eyes.