When experts discuss the prospects of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), they naturally focus on impending events. Will nonaligned nations tie their continued adherence to reaching a comprehensive test ban? Will North Korea, Algeria, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, and Iran live up to their NPT obligations? Will some follow through on their threats to withdraw from the treaty? Is China, which is building more nuclear weapons and refused to agree to limit them, in violation of the treaty’s demand that nuclear weapons states limit their nuclear arms? Will the NPT’s inspectorate, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), strengthen its inspection procedures? Can certain nuclear materials and activities ever be reliably inspected to detect and prevent their military diversion? The answers to these questions will determine not only the future of the NPT but the prospects for nuclear restraint.
In April 2019, NPEC’s Executive Director gave a guest lecture at the University of San Diego on global strategic competition. Apr 24, 2019AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski What’s Shaping Global Nuclear Weapons Competitions: It Isn’t Nuclear Arms Powerpoint Slides Part 1: Introduction – What Emerging Strategic Threats Are...
Click here to access a PDF of this report. Mar 27, 2019 AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski Improving the Role of Intelligence in Counterproliferation Policymaking: Report of the “Speaking Truth to Nonproliferation Project,” 2018 By Henry Sokolski March 2019 This report is the culmination of a two-year project sponsored...
A piece by NPEC’s Executive Director, Henry Sokolski, and NPEC’s Program Advisor, Victor Gilinsky, on America’s nuclear exports in The National Interest called “America’s Nuclear Export Controls are Fundamentally Flawed.” Mar 25, 2019AUTHOR: Victor Gilinsky & Henry Sokolski America’s Nuclear Export Controls are Fundamentally Flawed by Victor...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists publishes a new piece from NPEC’s Executive Director, Henry Sokolski, and Program Advisor, Victor Gilinsky, on the use of nuclear power, “Nuclear Power’s Weapons Link: Cause to Limit, Not Boost Exports” Sep 20, 2018AUTHOR: Victor Gilinsky & Henry Sokolski...
NPEC’s Executive Director and Program Advisor publish a new op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, “Make US-Japanese Nuclear Cooperation Stable Again: End Reprocessing.” Jun 28, 2018 AUTHOR: Victor Gilinsky & Henry Sokolski Make US-Japanese Nuclear Cooperation Stable Again: End Reprocessing By Victor Gilinsky &...
As the Trump Administration prepares to negotiate with North Korea, a question has arisen as to what model Washington should follow. National Security Advisor John Bolton has suggested that the Libyan nuclear case represents the best example to emulate. Given the violence Libya suffered after...
John Batchelor interviews NPEC’s Executive Director on the possibility of renegotiating the Iran Deal, the proposed US civilian nuclear cooperative agreementwith Saudi Arabia, and the important distinction between safeguarding and monitoring. April 24, 2018http://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/6828451-lessons-learned-from-the-iran-deal-s-safeguards-and-monitors-henry-sokolski-non_proliferation-policy-center-cns_updates/embed/v4?eid=AQAAAAHm4VqjMWgA http://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/6828346-the-kingdom-seeks-nuclear-reactors-what-is-to-be-done-henry-sokolski-non-proliferation-policy-center/embed/v4?eid=AQAAAIgk6lo6MWgA May 2, 2018http://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/6839071-can-iran-fashion-a-nuclear-warhead-for-a-ballistic-missile-henry-sokolski/embed/v4?eid=AQAAABQP61ofW2gA May 24, 2018http://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/6870820-nuke-arms-race-in-the-middle-east-what-is-to-be-done-henrysokolski-npec/embed/v4?eid=AQAAAKJXDVsk12gA
NPEC’s Executive Director introduces his new op-ed in Foreign Policy, “In the Middle East, Soon Everyone Will Want the Bomb.” May 22, 2018AUTHOR: Henry Sokolski How Bad Might the Middle East’s Nuclear Future Get?By Henry Sokolski Yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Tehran...
On May 24, 2018, 14 nuclear security experts, including NPEC’s Executive Director, sent a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The letter called on Congress “to make sure that with any cooperative...
On May 10, NPEC hosted a public Capitol Hill lunch seminar, “The Nonproliferation Act 40 Years On: Can it Deal with the Middle East?” on Capitol Hill to mark the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978 (NNPA). Its panel...
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