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The Pitfalls of Offensive Counterproliferation

Ali Abbas0 Comments

Published: April 30, 2026 The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was intended to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, and it has achieved remarkable success. Since the treaty was entered into…

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ICBM EAR for 23 Jan 25

Peter Huessy0 Comments

ICBM Ear for the Week of January 23, 2025 Prepared by Peter Huessy, President of Geostrategic Analysis and Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Deterrent Studies Key Takeaways Significant…

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The Pros and Cons of Nuclear Participation in the Pacific

Joe Buff0 Comments

Recently, Japan and South Korea began discussing the need for their own indigenous nuclear arsenals. Either or both might yet decide in favor of fielding their own nuclear forces. Australia…

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You Think the Ukraine War Was Bad? Imagine a Rogue Russia

Amit Gupta0 Comments

President Lyndon Baines Johnson once famously said he gave J. Edgar Hoover the directorship of the FBI for life because “[i]t was better to have him in the tent pissing…

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Strategic Sufficiency 2.0: Deploying Regional Nuclear Triads

Jonathan Trexel1 Comment

Strategic stability as it was once known is on life support. For those unfamiliar with the concept, strategic stability is a condition of strategic power balance that enables deterrence to…

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Nuclear Weapons and Trilateral Superpower Competition

Christine M. Leah1 Comment

Following the Cold War, there was much intellectual confusion concerning nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and why nuclear weapons exist. After the end of the Cold War, people around the world…

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Nuclear Castling in the Indo-Pacific

Michael R. DeMarco0 Comments

It is time to restation nuclear weapons in South Korea. The United States must modernize extended deterrence and strengthen the assurance of allies across the Indo-Pacific region. While the United…

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Why Nuclear Weapons Abolition Will Kill Millions (Again)

Kirk Fansher3 Comments

Einstein once said that he did not know how World War III would be fought, but World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. Nuclear abolitionists, in their…

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The Perilous Void: Imagining a World without U.S. Nuclear Deterrence

Aaron Holland1 Comment

The Conference on Disarmament for the United Nations met on March 18th, 2024. Sixty-five member states were in attendance, including nuclear powers such as China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia,…

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Proliferation’s Rising Threat

Stephen Blank0 Comments

Although scholars readily acknowledge that the international order is under serious attack from Russia and China, they do not pay much attention to the task of detailing those attacks in…

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Why Congress Should Support Ukraine

Stephen Blank & Peter Huessy0 Comments

Although Congress has adjourned for the holidays, when it returns, its first order of business should be passage of a resolution to provide Ukraine the support it needs to win.…