Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty
…the verified destruction of nuclear weapons, the safeguarding of dangerous nuclear materials, and the governance and enforcement of a nuclear-free world. Foreword Frank C. Carlucci and William J. Perry Chapter…
India and the Nuclear Future
…nuclear weapons has been so bold as to declare, in effect, that thermonuclear weapons are not required for minimum, credible, nuclear deterrence. Doing so would be the most exceptional act…
Confidence-Building and Nuclear Risk-Reduction Measures in South Asia
Nuclear dangers grew on the subcontinent after India and Pakistan tested nuclear devices in 1998. Nuclear deterrence theorists have a term for this phenomenon: the “stability-instability paradox.” In this concept,…
Maintaining Japan’s Non-Nuclear Identity: The Role of U.S. Security Assurances
…advanced civil nuclear energy programs and the technological capacity to become a nuclear-armed state. Moreover, Japan’s renunciation of nuclear weapons is also a part of its post-World War II national…
Remembering the Human Element of Nuclear Security
Nickolas Roth is the Director of Stimson’s Nuclear Security program. Previously a senior researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and a current associate with the Project on Managing the Atom, Roth was inspired to focus on the effects of nuclear weapons and nuclear risk by a…
Top Ten Global Risks for 2024
…of proliferation in the Greater Middle East if Iran attains a nuclear weapons capability and in Northeast Asia in response to North Korea’s capabilities. The new nuclear “security dilemma” action-reaction…
The Advantage of Being the Weaker, Nuclear-Armed State
…or more tactical nuclear weapons, or [fill in the blank] would be better off in leveraging outcomes, before and after the balloon went up. In the second nuclear age, it’s…
Raghavan on Reducing Nuclear Risks in South Asia
…on nuclear South Asia. South Asia is the post-Cold War test bed on which nuclear deterrence, escalation dominance, nuclear doctrines, force structures, command and control systems, and crisis management principles…