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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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Hot Mess Next: Missile-Struck Reactors in the Middle East

More than We Need: Projected World Uranium Enrichment Capacity

Iran Leaving the NPT: Our Next Headache

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December 8, 2021: Al Jazeera showcases NPEC’s latest study, “Hot Mess Next: Missile-Struck Reactors in the Middle East,” in their “Report: Missile strike risks to Middle East nuclear reactors“

December 5, 2021: The National Interest cites NPEC’s executive director Henry Sokolski in “Minimum Deterrent No More: Where China’s Nuclear Buildup Is Headed.”

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