Last week, China claimed it’s fielding its own Golden Dome prototype and has advanced ahead of America’s Golden Dome program. Perhaps it has. As it is, the Pentagon has yet to clarify precisely what the Golden Dome for America is designed to do, how it will...
One of the conscious efforts of the military spacefaring community is to contract commercial space-based services to support military missions. In many ways, their aims are being realized with Starlink, Planet, Maxar, and other commercial communications and imagery providers. These commercial systems, however, are vulnerable...
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...
As the dust settles on the election, one thing is certain: there is going to be increased interest in expanding America’s nuclear arsenal. Whatever the merits of what that move might be, it’s hardly a complete strategy to cope with a long term strategic contest,...
Next month, the second Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) preparatory review conference will meet in Geneva. In anticipation of this international conference, NPEC is releasing Nuclear Danger and the NPT, an edited volume of research on what nuclear dangers await and how proper enforcement of the NPT...
Six years ago, NPEC ran a mock execution of a law Congress passed in 1978 but that the Executive refused to implement —Title V of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978. Title V called on the State and Energy Departments to conduct country-specific analyses of...
Last week, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released its final report. Although Congress tasked it to assess the role of space systems in America’s strategic posture, the commission dedicated less than a half-page of its 160-page review to this...
Atomic Friends: How America Deals with Nuclear-Armed Allies, by Zachary Keck, an NPEC Wohlstetter Fellow, is a sleeper. It is about nuclear proliferation. It’s got to be boring, right? No, not this one. A week after its release, the Aspen Institute’s Security Group named it...
When you are still writing on matters that matter, the last thing you want is to be drawn away collecting what you’ve already done. That’s why too many collected works don’t get collected until after somebody dies. The attached volume, which NPEC assembled, consciously...
Sometimes, slow, steady changes produce revolutionary results. A case in point is missile and space technologies, which Space and Missile Wars: What Awaits will examine (for a free download click here). Long-range missiles, satellites, and space launch vehicles used to be high technology exclusive to...
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