Topic: South Asia

Commentary

Club Membership

India tried hard to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group with strong backing from the Obama Administration. It was a bridge too far.

June 26, 2016
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Diplomatic Posturing

Diplomatic posturing on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, and new strategic arms reductions waxes as prospects for

June 20, 2016
Michael Krepon
Commentary

China’s MIRVs: Separating Fact From Fiction

According to the Pentagon, China has started to place multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs, on its DF-5B missile. It might place MIRVs

June 1, 2016
Travis Wheeler
Commentary

Evaluating the Visit to Hiroshima

What are we to make of President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima? To my ear, President Obama’s speech was oddly unequal to the

May 31, 2016
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Killing the Emir

By Sameer Lalwani:  Last Friday, following another uninspiring meeting of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group, Pakistan issued a statement that more needed to be done

May 25, 2016
Sameer Lalwani
Commentary

Nepal’s Pivot to China May Be Too Late

Nepal’s constitutional crisis in the winter of 2015 and spring of 2016 prompted protesting parties to enforce an economic blockade in the

May 20, 2016
Hannah Haegeland
Book

The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age

In the second nuclear age, no less than the first, there are no realistic prospects for banning multiple-warhead missiles. China has started to

May 16, 2016
Michael Krepon
Commentary

The Second Coming of MIRVs

If the Pentagon is to be believed, the second coming of MIRVs is upon us, this time in Asia, with China’s deployment

May 12, 2016
Michael Krepon
Event

Book Launch: The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age

The Stimson Center recently launched our latest book, The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age.

May 2, 2016
Commentary

The Advantage of Being the Weaker, Nuclear-Armed State

Doyens of nuclear deterrence strategy during the first nuclear age were convinced that size mattered. The nuclear-armed state with a bigger arsenal,

April 24, 2016
Michael Krepon

Why the Nuclear Security Summit Alone Won’t Stop Nuclear Terrorism

The fourth and likely final Nuclear Security Summit(NSS) again highlighted the greatest security threat to the world: nuclear terrorism. U.S. President Barack Obama

April 12, 2016
Hannah Haegeland
Commentary

Retrospectives on MIRVing in the First Nuclear Age

Why did the Nixon Administration open the floodgates to MIRVs when it was clear that the Kremlin would follow suit, effectively ruining

April 5, 2016
Michael Krepon
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