In this op-ed, featured in The Wall Street Journal, NPEC’s Executive Director and Zachary Keck examine the security implications of North Korea’s recent test of a 300-1,000 kilometer range Scud missile with a maneuvering reentry vehicle. The piece analyzes how the further spread of this missile technology...
NPEC’s Program Advisor, Executive Director, and Bruce Goodwin, former associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, publish a piece in The Japan Times, “Commercial plutonium a bomb material,” which spells out the tactical reasons why reactor-grade plutonium can be used to make bombs. May 31, 2017...
NPEC’s Program Adviser clarifies how loopholes in the NPT are being exploited by Germany and others to get nonweapon states like Israel the means to deliver nuclear weapons in piece entitled, “The Real German Submarine Scandal.” Jan 04, 2017AUTHOR: Victor Gilinsky The Real German Submarine...
Table of Contents Introduction Henry D. Sokolski 1. Japanese Strategic Weapons Programs and Strategies: Future Scenarios and Alternative Approaches Ian Easton 2. China’s Future Nuclear Force Infrastructure: A Notional Breakout Scenario Mark Stokes 3. Alternative North Korean Nuclear Futures Shane Smith 4. How South Korea...
NPEC Executive Director co-authors piece in The Wall Street Journal detailing rising plutonim stockpiles in East Asia in “Japan and South Korea May Soon Go Nuclear“ May 08, 2016 AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski Japan and South Korea May Soon Go Nuclear The longtime status quo is crumbling, and plutonim...
The Diplomat reviews NPEC’s Executive Director’s latest book, Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future, praising it as a “thoughtful and sobering study.” Feb 08, 2016 AUTHOR: Francis P. Sempa Nuclear Instability in the Asia-Pacific Region? A new study reaches sobering conclusions on the potential for nuclear proliferation.Henry...
When it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, passions run deep. But whether one is against the deal or for it, there should be no debate over one thing: It is in nobody’s interest to ignore any known gaps in the plan’s nuclear safeguards. As...
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists published a piece by Victor Gilinsky and Henry Sokolski that argues that after the interim agreement, which allows Iran to enrich to 5%, the U.S. will find it much more difficult to gain “gold standard” civilian nuclear agreements that require...
Victor Gilinsky and Roger Mattson review Israel’s role in the NUMEC Affair of the early 1960s. Originally published in the Spring of 2010. Dec 30, 2012 AUTHOR: Victor Gilinsky & Roger Mattson Revisiting the NUMEC (PDF) 1,056.03 KB Revisiting the NUMEC Affair It is the...
In “Missiles for Peace” published by Armed Forces Journal, NPEC’s Executive Director, Henry Sokolski explains why the U.S. needs to pursue a dual track policy of deploying a significant number of long-range conventional ground based missiles while offering to expand and update existing limits on...
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