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.
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, 2018 http://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 […]
Below are nuclear cooperative agreements South Korea has reached with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Jordan. The Saudi agreement was secured from the South Korean government; the others were graciously supplied from the personal files of Sharon Squassoni, Professor at George Washington […]
In the spring of 2018, NPEC’s Executive Director Henry Sokolski gave two guest lectures on arms control efforts under the Trump Administration: one at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics in January and one at the University of California, San Diego, in April. […]
On March 27, 2018, NPEC’s Executive Director gave a lecture at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. The talk, “How Likely is Atoms for Peace in the Middle East, Starting with Saudi Arabia,” focused on the dangers […]
NPEC’s Executive Director, Henry Sokolski, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa at its hearing on the “Implications of a U.S.-Saudi Arabia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement for the Middle East.” For a full list of witnesses and […]
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