Kissinger, Shultz, Armitage, and the Nuclear Posture Review
Amidst a busy week before the 2018 State of the Union, there was little coverage over a gathering of three “Cold Warriors” in Washington on January 25. Dr. Henry Kissinger, Dr. George Shultz, and Richard Armitage testified at the...
President Trump, Please Don’t Bomb North Korea
North Korea likely cannot currently hit the United States with a nuclear weapon, but could be able to by the end of Donald Trump’s first term in office. It’s certainly a difficult situation for the United States to be in, and one...
Why the Netherlands Is Participating in Negotiations to Ban Nuclear Weapons
In December of 2016, the UN General Assembly decided it would convene negotiations on a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons within the coming year. Not surprisingly, possessors of nuclear weapons and their allies voted against the...
A Conversation with Mark Leon Goldberg
Mark Leon Goldberg is a writer, blogger and podcaster. Mark currently serves as the editor of the United Nations and global affairs blog UN Dispatch, and host of the Global Dispatches Podcast. In 2011, Mark co-founded the...
America Between Scylla and Charybdis: Dealing with a Nuclear North Korea
While the United States and its allies focus on building defenses, North Korea will continue to develop and deploy nuclear-armed, long-range ballistic missiles, thus changing the strategic objective from proliferation to...
Nuclear Disarmament Gravely Ill, but not Dead
Scholars in the nuclear policy community have written off the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference as a failure, without any acknowledgment of the notable progress that has been made within the past few years.