Unblocking the Road to Zero

Current Research

• Success in Baghdad?

  The relative success of the first round of talks on Iran's nuclear activities in Istanbul last month and the apparent progress being made in Vienna on establishing a procedure to clarify

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• A New Approach to Old Talks

  After weeks of diplomatic sparring, a venue has finally been set for the upcoming nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, UK, and the US).  Tehran has

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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 as they

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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 longer,

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• Engaging Iran in the Aftermath of IAEA Report

  The latest report on Iran's nuclear activities, released on November 8^th by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), reaffirms in stunning detail that Tehran

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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 October

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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 their great work

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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 wants.

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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 far-sighted

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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 of key

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• Unblocking the Road to Zero: France and the UK

  Published together in this volume, the first two papers in the series cover America's allies: France and the UK. Noted nuclear strategist Sir Lawrence Freedman examines how British

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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 their

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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 a treaty

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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 launches

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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 a new

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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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