In Pursuit of a Nuclear Deal with India
…years before India tested its first nuclear device. The Treaty’s central fault line lies between the nuclear weapon states recognized by the Treaty and nuclear abstainers. One means of relieving…
Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Path Will Not Depend on Iran or the War’s Outcome
…to trigger precipitous nuclearization. Historical experience shows that states rarely pursue costly weapons programs solely in response to rivals, doing so only when regime survival is acutely threatened and credible…
Kursk Nuclear Power Plant at Risk?
A Game of Risk with Aging Nuclear Power Plants Yet another aging Soviet-era nuclear power plant could be at risk in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as the fighting has expanded into…
Nuclear Weapons in South Korea? Not So Fringe Anymore.
…tactical nuclear weapons, a “NATO-style” nuclear-sharing agreement with the United States, or even an indigenous nuclear arsenal. Read the full op-ed in The National Interest. William Kim is a researcher…
Red Cell: The Chimera of Technological Superiority
…technological advantage in strategic and tactical nuclear weapons and later leveraged cutting-edge technologies, specifically stealth, satellite-based communications, and precision-guided munitions, to enable its outnumbered forces to repel a Soviet conventional…
Déjà vu All Over Again: The Risks of Historical Amnesia
…lowering the nuclear threshold, suggesting limited nuclear war is feasible. This risks lesser nuclear powers — including North Korea, which has massively built-up its missile and nuclear capabilities, and India and Pakistan, whose nuclear rivalry continues apace…
Top Ten Global Risks for 2026
…by 2030. In response to Russian and Chinese tactical nukes, the U.S. has developed its own short-range nuclear cruise missiles. Though the major nuclear powers have not tested nuclear weapons…
The United States and WMD Nonproliferation, One Year On
…of nuclear weapons, were an unmistakable vote of no-confidence in the painstaking diplomatic work of the IAEA under the multilateral framework of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons…