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Confronting Iran

The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, lays out the Trump Administration's foreign policy towards Iran.

Michael R. Pompeo

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Security November/December 2018 Essay

Confronting Iran

The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, lays out the Trump Administration's foreign policy towards Iran.

Michael R. Pompeo

Arms Control & Disarmament November/December 2018 Comment

Nuclear Weapons Don’t Matter

The impact of nuclear weapons on international affairs has been minor compared with the sums and words expended on them, but the costs resulting from the obsession...

John Mueller

On the warpath: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell making the case for invading Iraq, 2003

Arms Control & Disarmament November/December 2018 Comment

The Vanishing Nuclear Taboo?

As geopolitical tensions rise and nuclear arsenals are expanded and modernized, decades of arms control agreements, security cooperation, and a growing consensus about...

Nina Tannenwald

Arms Control & Disarmament November/December 2018 Comment

If You Want Peace, Prepare for Nuclear War

The United States must develop a modern nuclear arsenal lest it lose the ability to credibly defend its allies against potential attacks by rivals such as China and R...

Elbridge Colby

Arms Control & Disarmament May 10, 2018 Snapshot

The Strategic Disaster of Leaving the Iran Deal

Iran has learned that negotiating with Washington is a dead end.

Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Iranian missiles on display in Tehran, February 2018.

Arms Control & Disarmament Apr 30, 2018 Snapshot

A Real Path to Peace on the Korean Peninsula

For all the remaining challenges, a comprehensive peace deal including real denuclearization by North Korea is achievable in a couple of years, if not in the months...

Chung-in Moon

Kim Jong Un (L) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Panmunjom, April 2018.

Arms Control & Disarmament Jan 31, 2018 Snapshot

The Long Shadow of A.Q. Khan

The Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan illegally proliferated nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea over the course of decades. What lessons...

Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz

Supporters of the Muslim League-N party hold portraits of A.Q. Khan in Islamabad, May 2008.

Arms Control & Disarmament March/April 2018 Essay

The President and the Bomb

The United States must add additional checks to the nuclear launch process, both to limit the commander in chief's power and to protect the process from interference...

Richard K. Betts and Matthew C. Waxman

Arms Control & Disarmament Jan 9, 2018 Snapshot

The Myth of the Limited Strike on North Korea

A limited strike would risk igniting a full-blown war on the Korean Peninsula.

Abraham M. Denmark

Trucks carry North Korean government officials through Pyongyang, January 2018.

Security Nov 6, 2017 Snapshot

How to Handle South Korea's Missile Ambitions

The Trump administration should seek limits on the range of South Korea’s missiles and ensure that the United States has a say in when they are used.

Zachary Keck and Henry Sokolski

A missile on display at an army base in Seoul, South Korea, September 2003.

From the Archives Nov 3, 2017 Snapshot

How the U.S. Can Deal With Iran's Ballistic Missile Program

Only when Tehran is convinced that its security could be guaranteed regardless of its ballistic missiles will it consider fundamental changes to its missile program.

Richard Nephew

Iran's Revolutionary Guards fire missiles during a military exercise near Qom, November 2006.

Arms Control & Disarmament Aug 7, 2017 Snapshot

Tanking Up in Greece

For the past generation, Greece has been spending enormous amounts on its armed forces

Elisabeth Braw

From the Archives Aug 1, 2017 Snapshot

Will Iran Become the Next North Korea?

Across the Middle East, the inevitable question is whether Washington’s apparent willingness to live with North Korean nuclear weapons foreshadows what is to come in...

Philip Gordon and Amos Yadlin

Iranian surface-to-air missiles on display at an IRGC exhibition in Tehran, September 2010.

Security Jun 16, 2017 Snapshot

How to Normalize Pakistan's Nuclear Program

The threats of jihadists stealing a Pakistani nuclear weapon and of a high-intensity conventional war between India and Pakistan remain a present and growing danger....

Gaurav Kampani and Bharath Gopalaswamy

A Hatf-VI (Shaheen-II) missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,242 miles) takes off during a test flight from an undisclosed location in Pakistan, April 2008.

From the Archives Jun 9, 2017 Snapshot

Kim Jong Un's Quest for an ICBM

North Korea today has at least four paths to a working ICBM, and although each has its drawbacks, taken together, they suggest a country that will likely succeed...

Jeffrey Lewis

North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un watches a missile launch at an undisclosed location, released March 2016.

From the Archives May 23, 2017 Snapshot

Atoms for Pyongyang

Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump said that “under the right circumstances,” he would meet with North Korean President Kim Jong Un. With the recent...

Richard Rhodes and Michael Shellenberger

Military trucks drive through downtown Pyongyang in preparation for Kim Il Sung's birthday, April 2017.

Arms Control & Disarmament November/December 2016 Review Essay

The Drone Revolution

Drones have become the U.S. government’s weapon of choice in the war on terrorism. This has prompted a large body of literature exploring the ethical, legal, and...

Lawrence D. Freedman

Arms Control & Disarmament Jul 22, 2016 Snapshot

Colombia's Fragile Peace

Despite progress, a lot can still go wrong in Colombia's negotiations with the FARC.

Román D. Ortiz

A mural in Bogotá representing Colombia's victims of violence, November 2016.

Arms Control & Disarmament May 27, 2016 Snapshot

Latin America's Fatal Gun Addiction

As the world’s largest arms exporter and importer, the United States plays an outsized role in ensuring the ready supply of firearms and ammunition to Latin America.

Robert Muggah

Bullets are displayed at the Defence and Security International Exhibition Latin America Aero and Defence (LAAD) trade show for the defence and security industry in Latin America, in Rio de Janeiro, April 9, 2013.

Arms Control & Disarmament January/February 2016 Letter

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A Strong Start

Gideon Rose (“What Obama Gets Right,” September/October 2015) gives U.S. President Barack Obama generally high marks for his handling of foreign policy, but claims...

Steve Andreasen

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the signing of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II) in Prague, April 2010.

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