After the renewal of New START, the Biden Administration has its work cut out for it to reach additional arms control agreements with Russia or China. In the short run, neither Moscow nor Beijing seems likely to strike a major deal. Things look a bit...
Last week, the United States and Russia agreed to extend New START for another five years. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States will build on the five-year extension to devise an arms control treaty that addresses all of America’s and Russia’s...
Earlier this week, administration officials said they were close to reaching an agreement with Moscow to extend the New START arms control agreement for an additional year. They made it clear that they wanted to use the year to get China to join the talks...
As Washington opens its talks with the Russians over nuclear arms control and increases pressure on Iran and North Korea to get them to negotiate, there’s one nuclear diplomatic effort that’s going all but unnoticed— the tenth review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Slated...
Now that the President’s nuclear disarmament talks with Pyongyang are on the back burner, it’s worth reviewing how well Washington has generally faired in gauging the North Korean nuclear threat. Attached is such an excellent start covering the period from 1984 through 2002 by Torrey...
Two years ago, the possibility of a U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperative agreement that would allow Riyadh to enrich uranium or reprocessing spent fuel now seemed a sure cert. Today, at best, it seems a distant possibility. As Victor Gilinsky and Henry Sokolski write in the piece,...
Two years ago, the possibility of a U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperative agreement that would allow Riyadh to enrich uranium or reprocessing spent fuel now seemed a sure cert. Today, at best, it seems a distant possibility. As Victor Gilinsky and Henry Sokolski write in the piece,...
SpaceNews publishes a new piece from NPEC’s Executive Director Henry Sokolski and independent policy analyst Brian Chow on satellite security, “Growing U.S. Satellite Vulnerability: The Silent ‘Apocalypse Next'” Aug 22, 2018AUTHOR: Brian G. Chow and Henry Sokolski Growing U.S. Satellite Vulnerability: The Silent ‘Apocalypse Next’...
Earlier this month, it was reported that the White House wants a new deal with Iran that would eliminate uranium enrichment and the reprocessing of spent reactor fuel. Whatever Iran’s answer to such a request might be, this principle needs near universal application if nuclear...
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...
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