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Reflection on Obama’s Landmine Legacy

By Rachel Stohl and Shannon Dick:  April 4th is the Obama administration’s last International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine

April 4, 2016
Rachel Stohl
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Obama’s Nuclear Legacy

Experts from the nonpartisan Stimson Center analyze President Obama’s nuclear legacy in light of the conclusion of the final Nuclear Security Summit in Washington

April 4, 2016
Barry Blechman
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Options in Afghanistan

RECENTLY the top UN representative in Kabul grimly remarked that in 2016, success for Afghanistan would be measured in binary terms: whether

April 2, 2016
Sameer Lalwani
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Facing Armageddon in South Asia

2015 was a tense year for the relationship between India and Pakistan. The two countries shot at and shelled each other across their

April 1, 2016
Hannah Haegeland
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Nuclear Security Grand Challenge

Technology for Global Security announces launch of $1 million nuclear security grand challenge PALO ALTO, APRIL 7, 2016 — As the technology

March 31, 2016
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The Last Nuclear Security Summit, in the Shadow of Brussels

This week, President Barack Obama and 50 world leaders will convene for the fourth and final time to discuss how to prevent

March 30, 2016
Ellen Laipson
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Japan’s ‘New’ Opposition Party Is Not Actually New

Over the last several years, Japan has seen a panoply of new political parties appearing and evaporating. On March 27, this trend

March 30, 2016
Yuki Tatsumi
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New Aid Rules Are an Opportunity to Bridge Security-Development Divide

Last month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) decided to widen its definition of official development assistance to include certain

March 28, 2016
Johan Bergenas
Commentary

Why MIRV?

The Stimson Center will publish a collection of five essays in May titled, The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First

March 27, 2016
Michael Krepon
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Confronting the Risk of Nuclear Terrorism in Belgium and Beyond

The Belgian security services completed their background check in 2009 for a new inspector at the Doel nuclear power plant, about an hour’s

March 24, 2016
Debra Decker
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Combating Illicit Trade through Transparency

By Nate Olson:  It is a bitter irony that globalization has actually made much of trade and investment activity less transparent. The

March 23, 2016
Nate Olson
Commentary

A Calculated Relationship

The Western perceptions of China-Russia relations tend to be polarized. In the aftermath of the Ukraine crisis, the pessimists see another Sino-Russia

March 23, 2016
Yun Sun
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