Earlier this summer, well before Hamas launched its raids against Israel, Pierre Goldschmidt, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) former Deputy Director for Safeguards, sent me an analysis of how to approach creating a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East. I agreed to...
In an effort to get Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel, the Biden Administration is considering offering Riyadh a U.S. civilian nuclear cooperative agreement that would allow the Kingdom to enrich uranium, a process that could bring it within weeks or days of acquiring a nuclear...
NPEC Public Policy Fellowship Research Retreat February 8 and 9, 2023 Wednesday, February 8th China’s Compliance with the NPT Thomas Grant, Senior Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and former Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Bureau of InternationalSecurity and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State...
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 dust settles on the inconclusive Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, which ended last week in New York, it’s worth noting that it produced something that was quite significant. Biden, in his signed opening conference statement, closed ranks with Trump Administration officials on...
Late last week, the United States supported calls to create a demilitarized zone around the embattled Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear site. The State Department characterized fighting there as “dangerous and irresponsible.” What no U.S. official has yet said, however, is that the United States would not mount such...
When Russia first attacked the Ukrainian nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia in March, U.S. officials slammed Moscow for being reckless. Yet, when Russia announced earlier this month that it would hold a referendum that would effectively make the plant Russian property, U.S. officials were silent. Foggy...
As President Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia fades from memory, one neglected matter that’s almost certain to make news later is Riyadh’s renewed interest in nuclear energy. As I note in the attached piece “Will Seoul and Washington make Riyadh nuclear-weapons ready?” Riyadh is still...
On June 16, 2022, NPEC held a virtual meeting on “China and Article VI: Death Threats to the NPT” with Sharon Squassoni and Thomas Grant. The topic covered China’s unwillingness to negotiate “in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms...
Sunday, in Singapore, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida lamented China’s unwillingness to clarify its nuclear weapons holdings. His comments came not more than two weeks after Secretary of State Antony Blinken invited Beijing to collaborate on nuclear nonproliferation. Neither referenced the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)....
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