Abstract The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the nonproliferation regime have been weakened; perhaps no other issue demonstrates this as dramatically as…
Country or Region: United States
Summary Most books on missile proliferation focus on the spread of ballistic missiles or cruise missiles, not both. Gormley’s work, however, explains why cruise missiles…
Summary Drawing on oral testimony, previously unseen personal papers, and newly released archival information, this book provides a comprehensive account of British and American intelligence…
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 From 1961 to 1963, an interagency debate took place within the Kennedy administration as to whether to use persuasion or more coercive means 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…
Abstract This report explores Iranian popular opinion on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the determinants of Iranian attitudes. Using data…
Abstract The article presents and analyzes the US extended deterrence commitments in the Middle East as well as those provided by regional states, and assesses…
Summary For the past three decades, the United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war. This conflict has frustrated five American…
Abstract When it was concluded more than a quarter century ago, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union…
Summary More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, Fallout painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA’s errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread…
Summary What role should nuclear weapons play in today’s world? How can the United States promote international security while safeguarding its own interests? U.S. Nuclear…
Abstract Since the post-World War II genesis of nuclear deterrence, two presidential initiatives have been presented to deliver humanity from the threat of its failure.…
Summary In the years since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror has focused on al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Coverage of Iran has been devoted almost…
Summary On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret…
