Repairing the Diplomatic Threat Reduction Enterprise
The “nuclear enterprise” – as the nuclear weapons complex and force structure in the United States have been successfully rebranded — is bloated and in need of paring. It is…
Escalating risks of a war of attrition: Discussing Ukraine and Ways Forward
…policies. The nuclear powers should have a very high bar for the use of nuclear weapons and should not lower it. No distinction should be made between strategic and tactical…
HIMARS Marks Evolution in US Weapons Transfers to Ukraine
…Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS), Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio Systems 2009 $220,000,000 Qatar High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), Army Tactical Missile…
The Defense Research Funding Environment: A Conversation
…strategic versus tactical research. Strategic is the long-term. You want to have the capability to meet longer-term challenges. Whereas the tactical is we’ve got a problem today, for example, IEDs. …
Barry Blechman and Russell Rumbaugh’s op-ed on tactical nukes in Europe published in Foreign Affairs
In 1991, U.S. President George H. W. Bush decided to retire almost all the tactical nuclear weapons operated by the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy. His reasons were simple:…
The New Nuclear Agenda: Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation
…five nuclear weapon states under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) regime, leads various multinational efforts to prevent nuclear weapons, materials, and related technologies from falling into hostile hands. Japan, as…
Pakistan’s Choice
…lose traction. Much of the external criticism of Pakistan’s nuclear posture now focuses on its embrace of very short-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missiles and perhaps other types of nuclear weapons that…
The Second Coming of MIRVs
…between India and Pakistan. Also missing is nuclear risk-reduction and confidence-building measures. China and India have yet to negotiate their first nuclear risk-reduction measure. The last India-Pakistan nuclear risk-reduction measure…