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Deterring the Nuclear Dictators November 20, 2024

For more than three decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States and its allies faced no serious nuclear threats. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case. ...

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Why Iran May Dash for the Bomb November 12, 2024

Regime voices are pushing for it, and panic over Trump may offer a new impetus for action....

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Is This Our Last Chance To Stop Iran From Going Nuclear? November 02, 2024

When North Korea detonated a nuclear weapon in October of 2006, the world reacted with shock. In retrospect, it’s hard to understand why. They had been pursuing nuclear weapons for at least two decades. Over that time, multiple U.S. administrations a...

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The 2024 U.S. Elections and the Pax Americana November 01, 2024

Under a new US president, will the United States stand by Ukraine, potentially risking war with Russia? Will it stand by its NATO treaty obligations? Will it support Israel to properly defend itself, potentially risking war with Iran? Will it prevent...

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The Crumbling Nuclear Order September 17, 2024

The risk of nuclear war is the highest it has been since the end of the Cold War. The cause lies primarily with Russia’s ongoing nuclear threats and drills amid the conflict in Ukraine, but not with Russia alone. ...

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The Diminished Worldwide Respect and Fear of America September 11, 2024

After the U.S. presidential campaign concludes, either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will need to confront hard truths and tough choices to address an international geopolitical landscape marked by competitors, rivals, and enemies who, sensing a supe...

Is Ukraine Falling Victim to Victory’s Disease? September 10, 2024

Over the past month, Ukraine has boasted of seizing approximately 500 square miles of the Russian Kursk region, marking the first time that Ukraine has directly attacked and seized Russian territory since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.However it is ...

The U.S. Is Losing a New Nuclear Arms Race September 05, 2024

America has one of the largest strategic nuclear arsenals in the world—and one of the oldest. ...

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The Other Proliferation August 29, 2024

Mention ‘proliferation’ and most people will assume that you are talking about the spread of nuclear weapons. For good reason. Nine countries—China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United States and the Britain—possess them....

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A New U.S., Russia, China Nuclear Arms Race Spells Danger August 16, 2024

Unlike in the Cold War, the United States faces the prospect in the next decade of two peer nuclear adversaries, which will together have twice as many strategic nuclear weapons as it does. According to a senior American official visiting Australia l...

Iran: The Next Nuclear Weapons State? August 13, 2024

U.S. Intelligence Community Drops a Bombshell Regarding Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Work: An astonishing U.S. intelligence report just revealed a grim truth: The Islamic Republic of Iran may be conducting nuclear weapons activities — yet Washington is doi...

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Why China Is Doubling Down on Nuclear Weapons August 06, 2024

AI and National Security August 02, 2024

Humans are a tool-making species, but can we control the tools we make? When Robert Oppenheimer and other physicists developed the first nuclear fission weapon in the 1940s, they worried that their invention might destroy humanity. Thus far, it has n...

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Biden’s Anti-Israel Deterrence Will Provoke Future Violence August 01, 2024

Since last October, the Biden administration has pursued one objective in the Middle East: de-escalation. But this policy has succeeded only in deterring Israel from acting independently in pursuit of its security interests in Gaza and around the reg...