Last April, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists published a piece I wrote, “Missing from US-Iran talks: plutonium for more than 200 nuclear bombs.” Not long after, it published a critique by Sasan Karimi, a professor teaching at the Iranian-government and managed University of Tehran. His...
July 17, 2026 John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski asks how targeting civil infrastructure and military bases without nuclear weapons is the future face of warfare, and what the Golden Dome’s primary mission is—to protect America’s civilian infrastructure, it’s ability to blunt a first nuclear...
In the midst of the war on Iran, American and Iranian diplomats met this weekend to determine how best to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. As I note in the attached piece, “U.S.-Iranian Nuclear Talks: Three Headaches,” that RealClearDefense posted over the weekend,...
July 10, 2026 John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski reviews PRC & Russian efforts to defeat Starlink, possible fixes, what’s needed to get a baseline inventory of Iran’s nuclear weapons-related holdings, and how legal it might be to strike Iran’s power reactor at Bushehr. John...
As peace talks with Iran take a backseat to continued military operations, Washington is getting an object lesson in just how challenging preventing the spread of nuclear weapons is. If all the United States and its Middle Eastern allies had to worry about was arresting...
July 3, 2026 John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski examines why secret diplomacy over Iran’s nuclear program is failing and why it’s time for public hearings on exactly what it is the United States needs to secure an agreement to keep Iran nuclear weapons free....
June 26, 2026 John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski makes the case that the conflicting public accounts of what Washington and Tehran believe they have agreed to underscore the need for the United States to publicly state its explicit demands of Iran regarding its nuclear...
June 19, 2026 John Batchelor interview with Henry Sokolski explains CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper’s assertion that adhering to the Pentagon’s Law of War Manual on proportionality and avoiding the targeting of civilian objects and noncombatants actually makes U.S. military forces more lethal and effective—a point...
Last week, in a memo sent throughout CENTCOM, Admiral Brad Cooper, CENTCOM’s commander, reaffirmed the military’s commitment to avoiding the targeting of civilians and civilian objects. In his memo, he emphasized that conducting proportionate military operations increases rather than diminishes the lethality of America’s armed...
Last week, senior U.S. and South Korean officials met in Washington to hammer out how the United States might help build and fuel nuclear submarines for South Korea. The South Korean officials also urged the United States to give Seoul permission to enrich uranium and...
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