Last week, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol catalyzed a once forbidden public debate over whether or not South Korea should go nuclear by suggesting that Seoul might need to acquire its own nuclear arms if security tensions with North Korea worsen. This prompted a...
Sixteen years ago, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, William Perry, and Sam Nunn urged the world’s leaders to re-embrace the nuclear control and disarmament goals of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Reading today’s headlines, it appears their message was lost. Russia’s Defense Minister just announced Moscow...
As the year comes to an end, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director Rafael Grossi is working to secure Ukraine’s nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia against further military assaults. His aim in shuttling between Kyiv and Moscow is to get Putin and Zelenskyy to agree to...
December 23, 2022 Author: Henry Sokolski and Gary Schmitt Don’t dismiss Trump’s assertion of presidential power to declassify information The country is focused on the Jan. 6 committee’s criminal referral of former President Trump to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for four alleged crimes, including inciting and...
Now that Ukraine has taken Kherson, some experts fear Putin might feel cornered and yet resort to using nuclear weapons. Whether Putin will, of course, is uncertain. What isn’t, and what’s deeply weird in light of this worry, is that the United States continues to...
On April 12, 2021, NPEC Executive Director Henry Sokolski gave a lecture to University of San Diego students on the subject of “Dr. Strangelove’s New Passion: Precision-Guided Mayhem.”
As the war in Ukraine drags on, daily developments at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant explode on our Google News screens. Last week, external power needed to prevent a core meltdown at the plant was cut off repeatedly, forcing reliance on emergency diesel generators. Meanwhile, Russians...
Even as the war in Ukraine rages on, tensions on the Korean Peninsula are heating up. North Korea is testing missiles at a faster rate than ever, reportedly to refine its tactical nuclear weapon capability. There’s also talk about an imminent seventh North Korean nuclear...
Last week, on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Biden opined that the risk of nuclear Armageddon is the highest it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. His quip on the Ukraine war generated a flood of punditry. Earlier this week,...
When it comes to nuclear weapons and the Middle East, it is tempting to focus just on Iran. This may make sense in the short term but over the next two decades, Iran is only a part of a larger nuclear future in the region,...
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