Whatever the future possibilities, the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers have fulfilled a good deal of the promise for which they were established in the 1980s. The question for today is, how can we get them to do more to lower nuclear risks?
As countries in the Indo-Pacific region expand their missile inventories, security dilemmas related to North Korea and the Taiwan Strait grow more complex and the risks of nuclear escalation increase. The United States and its Asian allies must recognize these risks and act quickly to mitigate them.
While the wars in Ukraine and Israel have been dominating headlines, there have also been rumblings about an interest in Russia to restart nuclear testing.
On the 7th of October 2023, Hamas terrorists appeared to drive a stake through the heart of the US effort to broker Israel-KSA normalisation. This has sent shockwaves through the region, and the full implications remain uncertain.
Statistical analysis of nuclear crises tells an unexpected story about the usefulness of expanding nuclear arsenals.
Before responding to the challenge of two nuclear peers, the United States should revisit the question of which nuclear strategy can best achieve its goals of preventing nonnuclear aggression against itself and its allies, avoiding nuclear war, and avoiding catastrophic escalation if nuclear war occurs.
As these challenges risk detrimental impacts to the “backbone of America’s national security,” the military will have to prepare its critical—and limited—nuclear weapons facilities to weather more than just hurricanes.
Almost all technology is dual use to some degree: it has both civilian and military applications. This duality of technology presents a challenge not by its very existence but rather through the ways it alters information constraints on the design of arms control institutions.
The United States is sending anti-tank rounds containing depleted uranium to Ukraine.
The war in Ukraine has led to unprecedented levels of Russian-Iranian cooperation in the military, economic, and political spheres.