For France, nuclear deterrence is very much an underwater affair. At all times, one of the country’s four ballistic missile submarines quietly patro...
Russ Wellen | Posted 07.08.2011
In its inability to signal a true commitment to nuclear disarmament, virtual deterrence is hardly ideal. But it sounds like a step in the right direction, right? Wrong.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
We're under the gun: we need to make use of the nuclear taboo as a springboard to disarmament before its expiration date. But there exists another nuclear taboo against discussing the destruction caused by nuclear weapons.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
No matter the short term benefits to security, when the West severs the ties that bind disarmament to nonproliferation, it further undermines the trust of the developing world and long-term prospects for international security.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
With hawks always willing to poke a stick into the hive of U.S.-Russia relations, it's folly to think that just because the Cold War ended that we've been inoculated against nuclear war with Russia.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
As with almost all mainstream opinion pieces about U.S.-Iran relations, there's no mention of the United States pursuing a policy of nuclear reciprocity -- that is, disarmament.
Lawrence Wittner | Posted 05.25.2011
It appears that the U.S. government's desire for nuclear weapons far outruns its need for them -- even by the logic of nuclear deterrence.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
Many of us hoped for more from the Nuclear Posture Review. Still, as with the new START treaty, it may not be transformational, but it is transitional.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
Between India's elites failing to see expected returns, masses denied energy and sustainable development and U.S. plans thwarted by the Indian legislature, the India-U.S. nuclear deal has been a lose-lose-lose deal.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
The Obama administration is making generous concessions to the nuclear industry presumably, to win votes from Republicans on the new START treaty and other disarmament measures.
Matthew Duss | Posted 05.25.2011
According to the newly released report, Iran could probably develop and test an ICBM capable of reaching the U.S. by 2015 given "sufficient foreign assistance."
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
The elimination of nuclear weapons is actually consistent with conservative Christian theology.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
Thus far, the Obama administration's ideas of financial and health-care reform are, at best, tweaks to systems that cry out to be razed to the ground before reconstructing.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
Not a difficult concept, nuclear deterrence means what it sounds like: We don't intend to attack anyone with our nukes, but woe unto he who dares attack us. Still there are subtleties.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011
Since nuclear weapons were developed, the bulk of the reflection has been over the strategy adaptations for a weapon that can't be used, rather than our tendency to resort to mass warfare.
Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011
As it sits at a clear breakout point in its global ascendance -- and just before President Lula's upcoming trip to Tehran -- Brazil faces fundamental choices about the type of nation it wants to be.
LA Times | Paul Richter | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other ...
Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011
A small group of conservative Japanese defense officials have spread the view that if the United States reduces its nuclear arsenal, then Japan will build its own nuclear bombs.
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 05.25.2011
Where do Obama and McCain stand on these issues? To start, McCain, the nominee of what used to called the "small government party," wants to create two entirely new government organizations.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011
Allowing authoritarian regimes to be subject only to internal challenges in exchange for deproliferation and ending the support for terrorism is less bitter than it seems.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011
I believe that many states -- Iran, among others -- have leaders who are capable of acting irrational, hence posing a serious threat both to other countries as well as to their own.
LeMonde/Worldcrunch | Nathalie Guibert | Posted 09.18.2011