All Publications by Barry Blechman

• Lessons from Max

  Max Kampelman, who passed away on January 25^th, was a man of many talents, accomplishments, and distinctions.  His service to the United States was lengthy, varied, and sometimes

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• Presidential Inbox 2013: Implement the Nuclear Posture Review!

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  The Challenge

  In April 2010, the Obama Administration completed an inter-agency study of the nation's policies governing

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• Report Release: A New US Defense Strategy for a New Era

  The changing global security landscape and worsening fiscal outlook demand significant adjustments to national security strategy and budgeting, according to an extensive, year-long

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• A New US Defense Strategy for a New Era: Military Superiority, Agility, and Efficiency

  The changing global security landscape and worsening fiscal outlook demand significant adjustments to national security strategy and budgeting, according to an extensive, year-long

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• Iran In Perspective: Holding Iran to Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology

  The United States and Iran have been at loggerheads since the birth of the Islamic Republic, 33 years ago, but the two nations have never seemed as close to a major military

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• Iran In Perspective: Holding Iran to Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Technology

  The United States and Iran have been at loggerheads since the birth of the Islamic Republic, 33 years ago, but the two nations have never seemed as close to a major military conflict

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• A Course Adjustment for Climate Talks

  With little hope that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process will produce an effective treaty, at least for the next several years and perhaps

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• Next Steps in U.S.-Russia Arms Control: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  Below is the transcription of a presentation delivered by Dr. Barry Blechman to the National Defense University and National Defense Industrial Association Capitol Hill Forum, on

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• The US Should Wield a Stiletto on Iran, not a Club

  The Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington is indeed an outrage.  We should take a moment to congratulate US intelligence and law enforcement agencies for

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• Common Sense on Iran

  I recently visited 12 American cities - from Anchorage to Colorado Springs to Charleston - to discuss Iran and the effort to stop its nuclear weapons program. I may not have drawn

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• Turning the dream of a nuclear-free world into reality

  
  By Max Kampelman and Barry Blechman

  
  

  Two years ago, President Obama spoke out for universal
  nuclear disarmament in Prague, saying that America would seek the

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• Clearing The Road To Zero

  The NEW START agreement, which went into effect earlier this month, will reduce US and Russian operational nuclear warheads on long-range missiles and bombers to 1,550 each. 

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• Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge

  US Iran policy has been long on the tactics and techniques of sanctions, and short on a clear, coherent, strategic vision of the kind of US-Iranian relationship Washington ultimately

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• Report on the Workshop: Nuclear Dangers, Nuclear Realities

  In the future, 2009 and 2010 may emerge as a decisive time in the evolution of international nuclear policies.  The global demand for energy security has led to renewed interest

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• Cheater’s Risk: Test a Widely Held Presumption Preventing Nuclear Disarmament

  Twenty years after the end of the Cold War, there are still more than 20,000 nuclear weapons in the collective arsenals of nine nations.  Other countries, like Iran and Syria,

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• National Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament

  National Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament compiles Unblocking the Road to Zero’s previous country monographs into a single, accessible volume.  Renowned experts discuss the views

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• Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty

  Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty is a comprehensive analysis of the technical measures required to achieve and sustain a world without nuclear weapons.

  Topics in this

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• Resetting US-Russia Relations

  Secretary of State Clinton returned from Moscow in mid-October with an agreement to create a US/Russia "Bilateral  Presidential Commission" charged with, "identifying areas of

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• Unblocking the Road to Zero: Brazil, Japan, Turkey

  The Role of Non-Weapon States in Nuclear Disarmament

  The elimination of nuclear weapons is not only a task for countries with nuclear weapons - it cannot be accomplished without key

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• Unblocking the Road to Zero: US and Russia

  Can US-Russian nuclear reductions go low enough to make a nuclear weapon-free world possible? 

  
  

  On July 6th, the Kremlin and the White House announced that they would be negotiating

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• Unblocking the Road to Zero: North Korea and Iran

  Delaying Zero:  How can Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs be stopped and even reversed?

  Against the backdrop of North Korea’s nuclear test on May 25th and subsequent missile

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• Unblocking the Road to Zero: Pakistan and Israel

  Two Tough Cases: Persuading Israel and Pakistan to Relinquish Nuclear Weapons

  US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have jointly pledged to renew talks for

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• Unblocking the Road to Zero: China and India

  As rising powers in Asia and the world, both China and India are advancing technologically and gaining influence in global economic and political affairs. They are each modernizing

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• Nuclear Proliferation: Avoiding a Pandemic

  By Dr. Barry M. Blechman

  The Challenge

  There is serious risk that the international agreements and processes that have kept the number of nations armed with nuclear weapons fairly

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• The Partnership Imperative: Maintaining American Leadership in a New Era

  Since the early 1990s, US foreign policy has been trying to cope with march of technology, explosion of global markets, growth of population, and decay of the global environment. It

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• Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Paradigm for a New Century

  Arms control, the theory and practice guiding the decades-long effort by the United States and other nations to limit the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD), no

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• Training for Peacekeeping: The United Nations’ Role

  Stimson Report 12

  This report surveyed national training programs for peacekeeping, analyzed four decades of UN peacekeeping casualty data, and concluded that better training could

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• The American Military in the Twenty-first Century

  By William J. Durch, Barry M. Blechman, David R. Graham, John H. Henshaw, Pamela L. Reed, Victor A. Utgoff, Steven A. Wolfe

  With the breakup of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military

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• Key West Revisited: Roles and Missions of the United States Armed Forces in the Twenty-first Century

  Stimson Report 8

  Edited by Barry Blechman

  On March 11-14, 1948, the first secretary of defense, James Forrestal, convened the chiefs of the military services in Key West, Florida, to

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