Pakistan Reflects on Nuclear Achievement in Run Up to Election
Bottom Line: Pakistani citizens are heading to the polls next month in a public display of democracy and choice. Yet, with Pakistan’s military continuing to […] More
Nuclear
North Korea May Be Back on Track, but Are They Ready to Make a Deal?
The Trump administration has yet to make public its objectives for a North Korea denuclearization agreement, but Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated what it […] More
McLaughlin & Petraeus Warn About ISIS, Russia
The array of complex threats facing the United States requires the country to prioritize managing alliances and building coalitions, former Acting Director of the CIA […] More
North Korea Missile Test is a Game-Changing Act
North Korea is once again taking provocative actions, this time launching two ballistic missiles in which one landed for the first time in Japanese controlled […] More
The North Korea Threat
North Korea is threatening the Global Community with its reckless nuclear and missile behavior. They have consistently disregarded U.N. Security Council Resolutions and have made […] More
Financing Nuclear Modernization: Tough Decisions for the Next President
The next president, Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, will have to make hard decisions about whether to go ahead with the current, enormously costly, U.S. nuclear […] More
The Affordability Challenge of Nuclear Modernization
The White House and some Republicans in Congress are taking a second look at the need for, and the $1 trillion cost of, the planned, […] More
Roadblocks on the Path to Normality in Iran
On May 10, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to discuss Iranian sanctions with leading members of the European banking industry in London. However, […] More
It's a Matter of Time
Although the implementation of the Iran nuclear agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in January lifted some international sanctions on Iran, […] More
Economic Cooperation as Political Insurance
Since Iran signed the nuclear deal with world powers in July 2015, Tehran has seen a flood of foreign visitors. Nine heads of state, 16 […] More
A New Era in the U.S.-Japan Security Partnership
Last Friday, Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to visit Hiroshima after the city was destroyed by an American atomic bomb on August […] More
Coming Full Circle?
Seventy-one years ago, on August 6, 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 140 thousand people. The bombing […] More
Reinforcing Substantial Momentum
Against the backdrop of an increasingly assertive China and a highly-provocative North Korea, President Barack Obama attended the G-7 summit in Ise-Shima, followed by a […] More
Nuclear Standoff in South Asia
A May 15 test of India’s anti-ballistic missile system fanned the flames of a nuclear standoff 45 years in the making. Pakistan voiced “serious concern” […] More
Deterrence vs. Coercion
The adversarial history between India and Pakistan is compounded by each nation’s firm stance on the possession of nuclear weapons. As each country moves to […] More
A Need to Rebalance U.S. Nonproliferation Policy
South Asia is the region of the world at highest risk of suffering a nuclear crisis due to an explosive mixture of unresolved territorial disputes, […] More
China's Unbecoming Ally
North Korea held its Seventh Workers’ Party Congress last week. The primary focus of the Congress was to consolidate Kim Jong-un’s domestic power base and […] More
An Opportunity Missed
North Korea’s first Party Congress in three decades, a grand spectacle at which Kim Jong-un’s greatest achievement seems to have been giving himself the newly-created […] More