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Is Washington Too Focused on Iran's Nuclear Program?

For nearly a decade, the nuclear question has crowded out serious deliberations over a broader policy toward Iran.

Michael Singh

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Security Jan 10, 2019 Snapshot

Why Iran Waits

Iran has continued to comply with the restrictions on its nuclear program under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action despite U.S. withdrawal.

Henry Rome

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a joint news conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after their meeting in Ankara, December 2018.

WMD & Proliferation January/February 2019 Letter

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Would China Go Nuclear?

Dennis C. Blair, Caitlin Talmadge

A paramilitary officer takes part in a bomb disposal drill in Chongzuo, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, September 2018.

WMD & Proliferation Nov 19, 2018 Snapshot

The Right Way to Manage a Nuclear North Korea

Washington needs to accept that North Korea will remain a nuclear power for the foreseeable future and manage the situation accordingly.

Ankit Panda

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches a long range rocket launch into the air in North Korea, February 2016.

WMD & Proliferation November/December 2018 Comment

Armed and Dangerous

The real nuclear challenge is what to do when personalist dictatorships, such as North Korea, get the bomb. Careful handling and creative policymaking might contain...

Scott D. Sagan

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

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the United Against Nuclear Iran Summit on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, U.S. September 25, 2018.

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

War & Military Strategy November/December 2018 Comment

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Beijing’s Nuclear Option

A future conventional conflict between the United States and China could slide into a nuclear crisis more easily than we think.

Caitlin Talmadge

WMD & Proliferation November/December 2018 Comment

Moscow’s Nuclear Enigma

Nuclear strategy hawks in Washington tend to think that Russia's nuclear arsenal is designed for a future military offensive, but Moscow's key nuclear strategy old...

Olga Oliker

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

WMD & Proliferation Oct 2, 2018 Snapshot

Nuclear Deals and Double Standards

Trump is putting the global nonproliferation regime at risk.

Jeffrey Lewis

WMD & Proliferation September/October 2018 Essay

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How We Got the Iran Deal

The 2015 Iran nuclear deal stands as a model for combining the threat of sanctions and continued isolation with the hard work of negotiating, even between countries...

Wendy Sherman

Let's make a deal: during negotiations in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2015.

Strategy & Conflict Jun 1, 2018 Postscript

A Better North Korea Strategy

The United States must embed its approach to North Korea within a broader strategy that advances long-term U.S. interests in the region, including, but not limited to,...

Victor Cha and Katrin Fraser Katz

Missiles at a military parade in Pyongyang, February 2018

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.

Security May/June 2018 Essay

The New Killer Pathogens

Recent breakthroughs in gene editing have generated massive excitement, but they have also reenergized fears about weaponized pathogens. One of the most worrisome...

Kate Charlet

Be prepared: first responders during an emergency exercise, Saint-Étienne, France, April 2016

WMD & Proliferation Feb 2, 2018 Snapshot

Trump's Troubling Nuclear Plan

Rather than seek to decrease the world's reliance on nuclear weapons, Trump's plan affirmatively embraces nuclear competition.

Adam Mount

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

WMD & Proliferation Jan 16, 2018 Snapshot

Can Europe Save the Iran Deal?

There is no need for Europe to give in to Trump’s demands. It must encourage the United States to remain in the deal while readying itself for an alternate plan:...

Ali Vaez

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