Pulwama/Balakot and The Evolving Role of Third Parties in India-Pakistan Crises
…nuclear weapons made post-1998 crises more dangerous and drew global attention to de-escalation. After failing to stop nuclear weapons development by India and Pakistan, the United States became more concerned…
A New Nuclear Age: The Sum of All Fears?
…How US Nuclear Policies Are Undercutting Deterrence and Lowering the Threshold for Nuclear War,” Stimson Center, February 19, 2025. Christopher Preble, “The Influence of History on Nuclear Weapons Policy,” Review…
Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage in South Korea
Highlights 15,243.9 MTU spent nuclear fuel in storage (2017) 32,136 MTU spent nuclear fuel projected by 2050 1978 First year of commercial nuclear operation 24 operating nuclear power reactors 2…
Retrospectives on 20th Anniversary of India and Pakistan’s Nuclear Tests
…nuclear devices. For more on the 1998 nuclear tests, including Indian and Pakistani perspectives, we encourage you to enroll in “Nuclear South Asia” at www.nuclearlearning.org, follow the Nuclear Learning Facebook…
Military Bases and the Green Transition
…the drones and electronic warfare systems already being used in conflicts, need more energy than previous generations. More energy-intensive weapons, like directed energy weapons, are likely to come into wider…
Seventy Years Without an A-Bombing
…years. As Nina Tannenwald has written in The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (2007) “It is rare for a weapon found to be useful…
Why Your Stress Test Is a National Security Issue
…recognized the use of weapons-grade HEU to produce medical isotopes as a serious global security nonproliferation risk. Many non-nuclear weapons nations, such as (but not only) Iran, wish to have…
Revitalizing Multilateralism to Contain Nuclear Risks
The article is based on the presentation by the author at the Conference América do Sul na era nuclear (South America in the Nuclear Era) organised in August 2018 by…