This weekend, the United States and Iran will resume technical nuclear talks in Pakistan. At the top of the agenda will be how to eliminate the possibility of Iran making ten or more nuclear weapons from its stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium. Missing from...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Fall 2026 The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is soliciting applications for its Nuclear Public Policy Certificate Program from full-time congressional, executive, and diplomatic staff and journalists. The program is designed to provide the technical, legal, and historical background needed to gain...
Last month, NPEC’s Nuclear Policy Certificate Program students made their grades. Fifty-eight students successfully completed NPEC’s course on the fundamentals of civil and military nuclear policy and earned certificates of completion. This was NPEC’s largest nuclear policy program cohort in 13 years, with more than...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Spring 2026 This spring, NPEC will offer a six-lecture, virtual certificate program on the fundamentals of civil and military space policy followed by a policy roundtable discussion and a space war game. The program will be taught by leading space policy practitioners...
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...
Of all the questions America’s bombing of Iran has generated, two that have received little attention are how did we get here, and how do we make sure we never come this way again. The short answer is we’ve got to tighten the nuclear rules. In...
Again, although I normally would only bother you with NPEC-commissioned research and events, the analysis attached below by Greg Jones, one of the nation’s top technical nuclear proliferation analysts, deserves at least as much attention. Supporters of President Trump have argued that, because America destroyed Iran’s...
As a matter of policy, I have restricted my emails to you to NPEC-sponsored research or functions. Today, I am making an exception to spotlight Greg Jones‘ latest research on the difficulty of targeting Iran’s nuclear program. Mr. Jones is one of the nation’s top nuclear analysts and has...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Fall 2025 The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) is soliciting applications for its Nuclear Public Policy Certificate Program from full-time congressional, executive, and diplomatic staff and journalists. The program is designed to provide the technical, legal, and historical background needed to gain...
Early this morning, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected America’s proposal to create a regional uranium enrichment plant and for Iran to stop enriching uranium. As I note in the attached Breaking Defense op-ed, “Don’t Let Iran Walk Free from the NPT,” this may...
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