As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, sharing our most sensitive intelligence about Putin’s war plans has helped solidify international support for Ukraine and wrested control of the war’s narrative from Russia. Washington’s unprecedented willingness to share such secrets, though, should not be seen...
NPEC Public Policy Fellowship Research Retreat February 9 and 10, 2022 Wednesday, February 9th The ASAT Consequences of Nuclear Explosion in Space Greg Jones, Senior Defense Policy Analyst, Proliferation Matters Click here to view slides. Blue and Brown Water Space Strategies and Their Budgetary Profiles...
The Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) nuclear submarine deal became a political fact the instant President Joe Biden and Prime Ministers Borris Johnson and Scott Morrison announced it. However, as John Lee and Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute and I explained at an event held...
On September 9th at 5:00 PM, NPEC hosted a virtual event on “The National Security Case for America Returning to the Moon.” NPEC secured a distinguished panel of space experts to discuss the topic. Peter Garretson, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies at the American Foreign Policy Council,...
On February 3, 2022, Henry Sokolski did an interview with Peter Garretson for the Space Strategy podcast on this report. On January 17, 2022, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a shortened version of this report. Last Friday, Space News reported Vice Chairman of the...
Last week, the Nuclear Energy Institute’s CEO came out in favor of advanced reactors and establishing commercial spent reactor fuel reprocessing to fuel them. Plutonium chemically stripped out from spent reactor fuel can be used to power new, planned fast reactors that the industry is...
When Washington worries about our government surviving against future military threats, it uses nuclear war as its benchmark. To skirt the worst, it maintains international nuclear hotlines; hardens our nation’s nuclear command, control, and warning systems; and games possible nuclear attacks, defenses, and counter strikes....
Earlier this month, the Secretary of Defense requested $60 million for further development of Project Pele, a micro-reactor concept the Army is working on to provide power for remote military bases. So far, the project has flown largely below the political radar screen. It shouldn’t....
On May 26th at 5:00 pm EDT, NPEC hosted a virtual meeting on, “India and Pakistan’s Next Military Challenge: Drone Warfare.” NPEC secured two of the top experts on this issue, Sameer Lalwani, Senior Fellow and Director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, and General (retired) Feroz Khan, Research...
On May 20, 2021, Henry Sokolski gave a brief overview of the recent NPEC report, “China’s Civil Nuclear Sector: Plowshares to Swords?” This presentation answered the following questions: How might China exploit its “peaceful” fast reactor and reprocessing programs to make nearly as many nuclear...
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