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John Batchelor interviews Henry Sokolski on the IAEA’s limitations on safeguarding Iran’s program, the United States’ mixed nonproliferation record, why we need a Nonproliferation Enforcement Initiative (NEI) & a STRATCOM unit to give it a real backbone.

August 29, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on the IAEA’s limitations on safeguarding Iran’s program, the United States’ mixed nonproliferation record, why we need a Nonproliferation Enforcement Initiative (NEI) & a STRATCOM unit to give it a real backbone. CBS-NPEC round-up: The IAEA’s […]

August 29, 2025 Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Audio / Videos / Podcasts / Presentations, Interviews, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Nuclear Abolition & the Next Arms Race, Nuclear Power Economics and Security, The Nonproliferation Regime, Uncategorized

John Batchelor interviews Henry Sokolski on U.S. policy on the “right” to make nuclear fuel, Taiwan’s risky reactors, and the risks of landing on the moon after China.

August 22, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on U.S. policy on the “right” to make nuclear fuel, Taiwan’s risky reactors, and the risks of landing on the moon after China. CBS-NPEC round-up: U.S. policy on the “right” to make nuclear fuel, Taiwan’s risky […]

August 22, 2025 Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Audio / Videos / Podcasts / Presentations, Interviews, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Nuclear Abolition & the Next Arms Race, Nuclear Power Economics and Security, The Nonproliferation Regime, Uncategorized

To Prevail, America Must Get Scrappy (RealClearDefense)

Last Sunday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made a remarkable admission—when the Pentagon wargames against China, America loses every time. Although he didn’t say it, the implication is clear: American’s dominance in the Western Pacific is over. In the attached piece, “To Prevail, America Must Get […]

July 11, 2025 Articles, Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Op-Eds & Blogs, Press Releases, The Nonproliferation Regime

John Batchelor interviews Henry Sokolski on whether there will more or less nuclear deterrence for our Asian and European allies, how likely nuclear use is, and why America needs to license others to help build conventional arms.

July 11, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on whether there will more or less nuclear deterrence for our Asian and European allies, how likely nuclear use is, and why America needs to license others to help build conventional arms. CBS-NPEC weekly round up […]

July 11, 2025 Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Audio / Videos / Podcasts / Presentations, Europe, Interviews, Managing National Security Secrets, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Uncategorized

Simulation of an attack on a nuclear power plant in South Korea (JBPress)

This is an English translation of an article originally written in Japanese. You can read the original text here. June 26, 2025 Simulation of an attack on a nuclear power plant in South Korea By: Miki Aoki Part I. North Korea’s drone attack spreads radiation, […]

June 26, 2025 Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Nuclear Power Economics and Security, The Nonproliferation Regime

Nuclear Proliferation’s Next Iteration

Nuclear weapons proliferation is back. This time, it’s America’s allies—South Korea, Germany, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey— that are getting the nuclear itch. If Iran gets the bomb, we could conceivably see the first use of nuclear weapons between Israel and Iran. Meanwhile, Putin has found […]

May 29, 2025 Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Books, Nuclear Abolition & the Next Arms Race, REGIONS, RESOURCE, Russia

John Batchelor Interviews Henry Sokolski on Europe’s renewed interest in nuclear arms, the Pentagon’s disestablishment of the Office of Net Assessment, and a geothermal project that could make nuclear reactors for U.S. military bases less attractive.

March 14, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on Europe’s renewed interest in nuclear arms, the Pentagon’s disestablishment of the Office of Net Assessment, and a geothermal project that could make nuclear reactors for U.S. military bases less attractive. CBS–NPEC strategic nuclear review examines […]

March 14, 2025 Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Audio / Videos / Podcasts / Presentations, Europe, Interviews, Managing National Security Secrets, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Russia, The Nonproliferation Regime, Uncategorized

John Batchelor Interviews Henry Sokolski on how the US and EU are and will be leveraging space-based intelligence as a new form of strategic power.

March 7, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on how the US and EU are and will be leveraging space-based intelligence as a new form of strategic power. CBS — NPEC weekly strategic review examines how the US and EU are and will be […]

March 7, 2025 Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Audio / Videos / Podcasts / Presentations, Europe, Interviews, Managing National Security Secrets, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Russia, The Nonproliferation Regime, Uncategorized

It’s time to ditch Virginia subs for AUKUS and go to Plan B. (Breaking Defense)

Earlier last month, the Australian government handed the United States a five-hundred million dollar check to facilitate America’s delivery of nuclear-powered submarines under the 2021 AUKUS agreement. This may have helped fortify U.S.-Australian relations and military cooperation, but as I argue in the attached Breaking […]

March 6, 2025 Articles, Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Nuclear Power Economics and Security, Op-Eds & Blogs, Press Releases

Assured distraction: How attacks on South Korea’s nuclear reactors could be a smoke screen for wider conflict. (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)

On March 5, 2025, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published the executive summary of NPEC’s most recent war game after-action report: “Assured distraction: How attacks on South Korea’s nuclear reactors could be a smoke screen for wider conflict.” The war game sought to test if a […]

March 6, 2025 Articles, Asia, Pacific Rim, AUKUS, Missiles, Defenses, and Space, Press Releases, South Asia