Writing on ACW 2007–2008 · 32 posts
Andrew Grotto is a senior national security analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonpartisan education and advocacy group headquartered in Washington, DC. He is the author of Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for Resolving the Nuclear Crisis with Iran, available at www.americanprogress.org.
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A new CFR/Brookings study, Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, recommends that the United States “enhance Israel’s deterrent and defensive capabilities by offering it a nuclear guarantee” (p.16). The study is edited by Richard Haass…
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A trailer for the Heritage Foundation’s forthcoming video on “the very real threat that hostile nations and rogue dictators now pose to every one of us” is available. Heritage bills the video, scheduled to come out in February 2009, as…
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Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher (D-CA) gave an outstanding talk to a roundtable I co-hosted this morning at the Center for American Progress, my home institution, to mark the release of a study by Joe Cirincione and me, Orienting the 2009 Nuclear…
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There is much talk these days about the need for the United States to reengage Russia’s leadership in a strategic dialogue. But would Russia speak with one voice? We’re already familiar with this basic problem because it has dogged the…
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Building on James’ post yesterday, Medvedev’s announcement about putting missiles in Kaliningrad shows that the Russians are quickly becoming their own worst enemy. Why Medvedev would revert to clumsy chest thumping at a time when cooler heads are set to…
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Yesterday morning I attended a breakfast featuring General Chilton, STRATCOM commander. The one-time astronaut offered this colorful illustration for why definitional issues would make it impossible, in his judgment, to negotiate a workable treaty banning space weapons: Let’s say you…
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Congress has mandated that the next administration complete a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) by early 2010. Senators McCain and Obama have both indicated support for nuclear reductions consistent with sustaining deterrence, and there is growing bipartisan support for a serious…
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How’s this for irony: the bureaucratic home of nuclear weapons policy at DOD is SO/LIC&IC, short for Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities. Kidding aside, this actually says a lot about the diminishing bureaucratic footprint of nuclear weapons policy. During…
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So this weekend, Iran rebuffed the P5+1 “freeze-for-freeze” proposal for having meta negotiations (negotiations about negotiations) over the nuclear issue. No surprises there. But what next for the P5+1? I offer some ideas in my latest piece for The Guardian.…
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The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported Monday that Russian bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons could be deployed to Cuba in response to U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. The source was an unnamed senior Russian…
