Excerpt The most significant achievement to emerge from the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit was a pledge by 35 countries to observe the terms of a joint…
Country or Region: China
Abstract Under the guiding principles of its nuclear policy—maintaining a minimum deterrent, asserting a no-first-use pledge, and avoiding a nuclear arms race—China is modernizing its…
Excerpt Recent news reports say that Japan failed to disclose the existence of about 640 kilograms of unused plutonium—enough to make about 80 nuclear bombs—in…
Abstract In the United States, which trades three-fifths of its electricity in competitive markets, the prohibitive capital cost of new nuclear power plants ensures that…
Abstract For the last decade of Mao Zedong’s rule in China, his revolutionary thinking dominated all strategic planning and operations and directly shaped the policies…
Abstract In this Nuclear Notebook, the authors write about nonstrategic nuclear weapons—starting with the difficulty of finding a universal definition for them. Although the United…
Abstract In April 2012, India successfully test-launched the Agni V ballistic missile—and though the missile needs more testing and is still several years away from…
Abstract The authors calculate that some 125,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945, about 97 percent of them by the United States and the…
Abstract Today, China is the only one of five original nuclear weapon states that is increasing its nuclear arsenal. According to some estimates, the country…
Abstract The number of weapons in China’s nuclear arsenal is slowly growing, and the capability of those weapons is also increasing. The authors estimate that…
Abstract Recent protests against the exclusion of Chinese scientists from an international conference held in the United States only scratch the surface of the formal…
Summary Getting to Zero takes on the much-debated goal of nuclear zero—exploring the serious policy questions raised by nuclear disarmament and suggesting practical steps for…
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Summary Concerns about energy security affect economic performance and political stability all over the world. Yet nowhere is this issue more critical than in Asia…
Summary American foreign policy in Asia has long been preoccupied with mainland China. But the end of the Cold War and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre…
Summary Arguing for a strategy that promises to achieve greater regional stability, this overview of security relations in the Asia-Pacific finds that current approaches by…
