In January, I shared a Bulletin of Atomic Scientists piece with you in which I recommended President Trump protect our nuclear power plants from drone strikes. In the attached piece, “It’s past time to start protecting U.S. nuclear power reactors from drones,” I return to this topic....
August 29, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on the IAEA’s limitations on safeguarding Iran’s program, the United States’ mixed nonproliferation record, why we need a Nonproliferation Enforcement Initiative (NEI) & a STRATCOM unit to give it a real backbone. CBS-NPEC round-up: The IAEA’s...
August 22, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on U.S. policy on the “right” to make nuclear fuel, Taiwan’s risky reactors, and the risks of landing on the moon after China. CBS-NPEC round-up: U.S. policy on the “right” to make nuclear fuel, Taiwan’s risky...
Although few noticed, last week’s bombardment of an auxiliary building at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine offered yet another glimpse into a future in which civilian nuclear plants might be hit in war. NPEC has focused on this prospect for some time. Last...
This is an English translation of an article originally written in Japanese. You can read the original text here. June 26, 2025 Simulation of an attack on a nuclear power plant in South Korea By: Miki Aoki Part I. North Korea’s drone attack spreads radiation,...
With President Trump’s latest announcement that Iran’s centrifuges either will “blow up nicely in a deal” or “viciously” without one, the odds of a military strike against Iran’s suspect nuclear activities just shot up. This raises the question: if negotiations fail, what would Israel or the...
In all the peace proposals the United States, Russia, Europe, and Ukraine have made public, one item always shows up: the reopening of the damaged six-reactor Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Washington wants to rebuild and operate it, Moscow insists the plant is theirs, and Kyiv says...
This Saturday, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi to flesh out the details of a nuclear deal. As I explain in the attached National Interest op-ed, “Will an Iran Deal Make Nuclear Proliferation Great Again?,”...
April 18, 2025 CBS Eye on the World interviews Henry Sokolski on the next steps in U.S.-Iran nuclear talks & how our position in those talks risks making nuclear proliferation great again. CBS-NPEC weekly round up examines the next steps in U.S.-Iran nuclear talks & how our...
Over the last four weeks, America’s allies have been spooked by the prospect that America might renege on its security guarantees. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and even the Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson have either offered to host U.S....
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