Summary Uranium occurs naturally in the earth’s crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its…
Country or Region: United States
Abstract This article offers a survey of risks that might arise for strategic stability (defined as a situation with a low probability of major-power war)…
Summary Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows…
Abstract Responding to Derrin Culp’s critique, the author argues that distinguished nuclear theorists may be wrong because groups of experts have been wrong in the…
Summary On October 1, 2008, Congress enacted a proposal that originated with President George W. Bush in 2005 to approve an unprecedented nuclear trade pact…
Summary Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the…
Abstract Most observers would surmise that the United States applies significant pressure on certain states behind closed doors to deal with nuclear proliferation threats. While…
Abstract Chinese writings on the workings of nuclear stability, deterrence, and coercion are thin and politicized. Nevertheless, it is possible to glean, from direct and…
Abstract This article analyzes South Korean views of the April 2010 US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and explores the review’s impact on South Korean domestic…
Abstract Understanding why the Iranian regime wants to possess nuclear weapons is essential to formulating the best policy to prevent (or perhaps to simply manage)…
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…
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…
Abstract The Obama administration has argued that its efforts to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in US defense policy and work toward “a world…
Abstract The case studies in this special issue demonstrate that the Obama administration’s 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and related nuclear policy initiatives encouraged a…
Abstract The United States faces a series of strategic and policy conundrums as it attempts to promote strategic stability in the Persian Gulf and the…
