Export Controls in the United Arab Emirates: A Practical Manifestation of a Strategic Dilemma
…spent nuclear fuel, which can produce plutonium suitable for use in nuclear weapons. The UAE’s nuclear program will remain highly transparent and will be subject to investigation and monitoring by…
Walking the Tightrope: U.S. Extended Deterrence in Northeast Asia Under President Biden
…own nuclear weapons. As in the past, the United States relies on nuclear weapons to make extended deterrence credible. However, given that extended deterrence relying on nuclear weapons is becoming…
Norms for Nuclear-Armed Rivals
…testing nuclear weapons reinforces the norm of no use. States regularly test other weapons of warfare, and they test missiles that carry nuclear weapons. But responsible possessors of nuclear weapons…
Don’t Reduce The US Nuclear Arsenal Unilaterally
…nuclear weapons by committing itself to their security, including an assurance to counter any nuclear threat against them. Many NATO members, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, have relinquished nuclear weapon…
Senate Subcommittee Hearing: “Security on the Korean Peninsula”
…nuclear use, North Korean rhetoric about its nuclear weapons program also shifted. While past descriptions of the country’s nuclear weapons were posed as contingent on the United States maintaining its…
Pursuing Both Denuclearization and Risk Reduction in North Korea Engagement
…without nuclear weapons.”5Michiru Nishida, “A Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast Asia: From a Japanese Security Perspective,” in Getting to Nuclear Zero in Northeast Asia, Routledge, 2025, 48-64. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003595441-5/nuclear-weapons-free-zone-northeast-asia-michiru-nishida?context=ubx&refId=12508e60-2dce-4044-9d46-e8d5fddd38d5. At the same…
Conference in Tehran on Iran’s Nuclear Program
…NPT, is suspected of having a large arsenal of nuclear weapons and maintains a policy of “nuclear ambiguity.” The fact that the IAEA does not have access to Israel’s nuclear…
What’s in a Tripwire: The Post-Cold War Transformation of the US Military Presence in Korea
…and around the Korean Peninsula. So, too, did the removal of all U.S. tactical nuclear weapons from South Korea in the fall of 1991, which enabled the Joint Declaration to…