As President Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia fades from memory, one neglected matter that’s almost certain to make news later is Riyadh’s renewed interest in nuclear energy. As I note in the attached piece “Will Seoul and Washington make Riyadh nuclear-weapons ready?” Riyadh is still...
Sunday, in Singapore, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida lamented China’s unwillingness to clarify its nuclear weapons holdings. His comments came not more than two weeks after Secretary of State Antony Blinken invited Beijing to collaborate on nuclear nonproliferation. Neither referenced the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)....
With President Biden’s decision on Wednesday to sell Ukraine advanced General Atomic drones and HIMARS accurate multiple rocket launching systems, the war in Ukraine has moved further into a missile-driven conflict whose boundaries will increasingly be defined more by missile threats than any nuclear fulminations....
With the current crisis in Ukraine, it’s tempting to downplay arms control concerns with China as an academic indulgence. That, however, would be a mistake. As dangerous as Russia currently is, China will be far more threatening in the future. Certainly, we now know that...
As the war in Ukraine enters its 68th day, our government has shared ever more sensitive information about what’s happening and Putin’s next moves. This is no accident. As Ronald Moultrie, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security recently noted, “We are going to...
Earlier this week, in response to Russian assaults on nuclear plants in Ukraine, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for the creation of a specialized Japanese nuclear security force to secure Japan’s nuclear plants against military attack. The governor of Fukui, which hosts Japan’s largest...
With the Ukrainian crisis and Olympics dominating the news, it’s understandable that the Presidential election in South Korea — one of America’s most important allies — has not gotten the attention it deserves. A key issue in this close race is whether or not South...
As the Olympics in China begin, many in Washington are struggling to determine how the United States should deal with Beijing given its bad behavior. The short answer is Washington should hold Beijing to China’s own commitments to behave. A case in point is Beijing’s...
Late last week, Bill Gates’ TerraPower nuclear reactor corporation struck an agreement with the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry to build a small, advanced modular fast power reactor in Wyoming. The nuclear plant, called Natrium, is touted as the path forward to...
Almost the instant President Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered to share nuclear submarine technology with Australia, analysts worried that it set a bad nuclear nonproliferation precedent that the Irans of the world would exploit to justify pushing nuclear subs programs of their own....
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