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October 9, 2026: Defanging the Saudi Nuclear Deal

October 5, 2026: Guest Lecture with Shaun Burnie: “Reactors in Warzones: What Could Go Wrong“

October 5, 2026: China’s Uranium Enrichment Expansion: Worrisomely Large

September 8, 2026: China Gets a Golden Dome of Its Own: What to Worry, NPEC Space War Game

September 5, 2026: Could US Reactors Survive Military Attacks in Saudi Arabia?

August 28, 2026: Former Senior Officials Ask Secretary Wright to Release Saudi Nuclear Deal Documents

August 16, 2026: Iran’s other nuclear weapons option — plutonium bombs

August 11, 2026: The US-Saudi nuclear deal: Don’t settle, renegotiate

August 4, 2026: No “Gold Standard,” No Israel Clause: What the Saudi Nuclear Deal Actually Says

NPEC’s Books

Golden Dome: What's Its Story?

The Coming Collision of Commercial and Military Space

Nuclear Proliferation’s Next Iteration

China, Russia, and the Coming Cool War

Net-Zero and Nonproliferation: Assessing Nuclear Power and Its Alternatives

Space: America's New Strategic Front Line

Atomic Friends: How America Deals with Nuclear-Armed Allies

Peering into Our Nuclear Future: Selected Writings of Victor Gilinsky

Space and Missile Wars: What Awaits

Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future, Second Edition

Alternative East Asian Nuclear Futures, Volume II: Energy Scenarios

Alternative East Asian Nuclear Futures, Volume I: Military Scenarios

Reactor-Grade Plutonium and Nuclear Weapons: Exploding the Myths

Nuclear Rules, Not Just Rights: The NPT Reexamined

Should We Let the Bomb Spread?

Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach?

Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation

Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?

The Next Arms Race

Pure Risk: Federal Clean Energy Loan Guarantees

Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks

Pakistan’s Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk

Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter

Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom

Pakistan’s Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War

Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation

Taming the Next Set of Strategic Weapons Threats

Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran

Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice

Checking Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

Beyond Nunn-Lugar: Curbing the Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats from Russia

Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation

Planning for a Peaceful Korea

Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation

Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation

Prevailing in a Well-Armed World: Devising Competitive Strategies Against Weapons Proliferation

Fighting Proliferation: New Concerns for the Nineties

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NPEC’s Podcasts and Audio Clips

John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski examines IAEA DG Grossi’s claim he can get inspections as good as the Additional Protocol on Saudi nuclear fuel-making, “black boxing” this activity, how to view Trump’s pulling out of cutting a nuclear deal with Iran, & need to harden Saudi nuke plants against military strikes.

September 12, 2026

John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski clarifies what documents the Trump administration has made available to the public on the U.S.–Saudi nuclear deal & what’s been kept under wraps & why & reviews the bidding on reported U.S. attacks that have killed innocent Iranians.

September 4, 2026

John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski spotlights how Iran could get hundreds of bombs’ worth of plutonium from Bushehr; why Musk shouldn’t make critical military decisions regarding Starlink; how accurate Trump’s estimate is that North Korea has 57 nuclear bombs; how Russia is waging gray-zone warfare against the West; and how the Golden Dome’s cost depends on what its mission is.

August 28, 2026

NPEC’s Occasional Papers

Incoming: Chinese Conventional Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

Proxy Wars in a Space-Serviced World: A War Game After-Action Report

Strategic Distraction: Pyongyang’s Proxies Target South Korea’s Reactors

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John Batchelor-NPEC weekly review examines what Congress might do to condition the US-Saudi civil nuclear deal this & next year; how vulnerable US bases are to drone and missile strikes; & what the US & China nuclear testing talks aer focusing on

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NPEC in the Media

September 10, 2026: Christian Science Monitor speaks with NPEC’s executive director on how the U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal and the administration’s decision to address Iran’s nuclear activity militarily might influence Iran’s approach to the conflict with the United States.

August 3, 2026: Christian Science Monitor speaks with NPEC’s executive director on how the U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal could encourage other countries to get nuclear weapons.

July 24, 2026: America at Night speaks to NPEC’s Executive Director about the U.S.-Saudi 123 agreement.