Abstract The nuclear weapon states (NWS) have different perspectives on the desirability and feasibility of a world without nuclear weapons. A review of each of…
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Summary President Obama’s administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used…
Summary Throughout the past century, and before, U.S.-China relations have been marked by large swings in mutual perceptions and attitudes. Over the last decade in…
Summary This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative projections of nuclear proliferation over the next decade and offers a range of practical nonproliferation measures.…
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Summary This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom…
Summary Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a…
Summary For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack…
Abstract The most important short-term success of President Barack Obama’s nuclear weapons policy has been to halt the erosion of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation…
Summary In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense. If current trends continue, the…
Abstract Nuclear optimists and pessimists disagree on whether the odds of nuclear war are low or high. This viewpoint assesses the odds of nuclear war…
Abstract Claims that China is the only nuclear power currently expanding its arsenal fail to take into account the technical, historical, and bureaucratic realities that…
Summary Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and…
Abstract To understand the prospects for engaging China and Russia on disarmament, the authors examine views of U.S. strategic policy in Beijing and Moscow, the…
Abstract The Obama administration has made a great effort to increase the role of advanced conventional weaponry in US national security thinking and practice, in…
Abstract Chinese commentators assessing the 2010 US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) acknowledged a number of ways in which they felt it was “better” than the…
