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A friend and I have an ongoing debate about the reasons for the plague of partisan rancor now afflicting Washington in general and arms control in particular. For my friend, the passage of the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) was…
Has the focus on the unlikely possibility of a nuclear-armed Japan distracted from more important policy challenges that threaten the shared interests of the United States and Japan in arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation? Should policymakers take Japanese “nut-jobs” seriously?…
This is a guest post on behalf of ACW reader and occasional contributor Chris Camp. The first Atomic bombs, Trinity, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, hold an outsized place in our perceptions of what a nuclear weapon should be. Certainly they were notable…
This is a guest post on behalf of ACW reader and occasional contributor Chris Camp. Everyone knows that there are basically two paths to a bomb, right? You either build a bunch of centrifuges and enrich uranium to 93% or…
Underground at Anhalter Bahnhof and waiting for the S2 train a couple of mornings ago, a reporter rang me up to talk about Iran. He had read this piece written a few days before, in which I had run down why the…
We at the Stimson Center are celebrating our twenty-fifth anniversary this year. A quarter-century ago, the Cold War was receding at a rapid pace and the Soviet Union was in its last stages of decomposition. Washington and Moscow were on…
Why did North Korea just test two Scud missiles? Was North Korea responding to the US-South Korean military exercise? Does the pairing of conventional and unconventional missiles pose a unique challenge for military planners in the future? Today, Jeffrey and…
Harry here. It’s official, I will be in DC (in the flesh!) between July 9th and 19th! I plan on attending the Generation Prague conference, along with several other Think Tank and State Dept hosted events. However, events don’t take…
Horse cavalry gave way mechanized warfare, and tank armies are giving way to drone warfare. Drones flourish where national sovereignty is weak and international borders are extremely permeable. Since it’s not a good idea for Washington to set precedents it…
Well, I am off to Paris. But before I go, I want to mention something that is puzzling me. You undoubtedly noticed that Rodong Sinum (Korean|English) carried a story about Kim Jong Un attending test launches of “newly developed ultra-precision tactical…
