It’s unclear if the United States and Iran will be able to reach an agreement on Iran’s suspect nuclear weapons-related activities and stockpiles. What should be obvious, however, is that whatever Washington proposes will be seen by Iran’s neighbors and other would-be bombmakers as a...
This week, a month-long review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) began at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), a U.S.-funded service that reaches more than one million viewers in the Middle East, asked me whether the NPT keeps nuclear weapons from...
President Trump has given Iran several more days to reach a deal to end hostilities. A key sticking point is whether or not Iran will give up its uranium enrichment activities. Expert fear these might bring Iran within weeks of acquiring nuclear weapons. It’s unclear...
Although last Saturday’s ceasefire negotiations with Iran failed to resolve the future status of its nuclear program, the issue is sure to be joined in the upcoming Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference April 27th. In the attached Wall Street Journal op-ed, “NPT Gives Trump...
A key objective of the negotiations this weekend to end the war with Iran was to make sure Tehran never develops a nuclear bomb. The United States delegation insisted that to achieve this objective, Iran had to eliminate its enriched uranium stocks and related production...
Last night, President Trump presented his case for America going to war against Iran. He insisted it would be “intolerable” for a regime like Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. That’s why the United States and Israel have bombed Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities and an incomplete...
The New START strategic nuclear weapons arms control treaty with Russia ended today. A key question now is, what new agreement covering what new strategic threats might replace it. One concern that deserves attention is China’s recent deployment of a conventional intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-27....
Last week, the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy failed to mention the need to counter the spread of nuclear weapons, as did the White House’s National Security Strategy, released several weeks earlier. As I argue in the attached Breaking Defense piece, “America Needs a Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy…Again,” this lapse is disappointing,...
Just before New Year’s, Thomas Grant and I wrote a piece, “Maybe Arms Control Does Have a Future,” for The Wall Street Journal. The op-ed explains how the United States should exploit the April Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to get Moscow and Beijing to...
Earlier this week, the White House released its National Security Strategy. Within hours, the Washington commentariat began slicing and dicing every paragraph. What they didn’t do, however, was reflect on what was missing from the document—any mention of extended deterrence or nuclear nonproliferation. As I...
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