Weapons Inspections
North Korea’s Chemical Weapons Shop of Horrors
“If you set a red-line, you should stick to it,” remarked a Japanese defense official at a recent conference on extended deterrence in Seoul when asked about the U.S. approach...
Arms Control Helps Contain the Ukraine Crisis
The Ukraine crisis has plunged U.S. and Western relations with Russia toward a post–Cold War low. The damage will continue for some time, especially in the event of a Russian...
Nuclear Zero After Crimea
On April 5, 2009, in Prague, President Barack Obama proclaimed the goal of freeing the world from the unique dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The massive Czech crowd applauded, as...
Iran Belongs at the Nuclear Security Summit
As fifty-three countries attend the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, a country that has developed a sophisticated nuclear complex and which has been in the news for more...
Good News From Ukraine: It Doesn’t Have Nukes
Ukraine is a bad news story that is destined to get worse. In the midst of a tragedy, it will strike some as inappropriate to note that things could be...
Is Russia Violating the INF Treaty?
Is Russia violating the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty? Press reports have suggested that this is the case, and top Republican legislators are demanding that it act. “We believe...
No Iran Deal? No Problem
Late last year, the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council—the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, and France—plus Germany) reached an interim deal with Iran to freeze and...
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Bombing Iran: Tough Tasks for Israeli Intelligence
Historically, Israel’s intelligence services have played a vital role—both direct and indirect—in making decisions of war and peace. In 1954, Israeli intelligence persuaded then Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon to approve...
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Obama Draws a Line on Iran Policy
President Barack Obama started his fifth State of the Union speech on Tuesday, January 29, with the customary standing ovation that all president’s receive before beginning his hour-long address to...
Hillary Clinton’s Iraq War Vote Still Matters
Hillary Clinton seems destined to run for president in 2016. Her chances of capturing the Democratic nomination are once again taking on that familiar quality of inevitability, redolent of the...
Eight Ways You’re Wrong About Iran’s Nuclear Program
Oft repeated but false assertions about Iran’s nuclear program—and the recent deal to tamp it down—may end up being more dangerous than the program itself. These wrong statements reinforce each...
What North Korea Says About the Iran Talks
With recent reports of growing momentum behind the Senate’s sanctions bill and President Obama’s sobering admission that developing a permanent deal to end Iran’s nuclear program is “50/50,” the U.S....