Atomic Friends: How America Deals with Nuclear-Armed Allies, by Zachary Keck, an NPEC Wohlstetter Fellow, is a sleeper. It is about nuclear proliferation. It’s got to be boring, right? No, not this one. A week after its release, the Aspen Institute’s Security Group named it […]
When you are still writing on matters that matter, the last thing you want is to be drawn away collecting what you’ve already done. That’s why too many collected works don’t get collected until after somebody dies. The attached volume, which NPEC assembled, consciously […]
Sometimes, slow, steady changes produce revolutionary results. A case in point is missile and space technologies, which Space and Missile Wars: What Awaits will examine (for a free download click here). Long-range missiles, satellites, and space launch vehicles used to be high technology exclusive to […]
With the world focused on the nuclear crisis in Iran, it is tempting to think that addressing this case, North Korea, and the problem of nuclear terrorism is all that matters and is what matters most. Perhaps, but if states become more willing to use […]
This book, Alternative East Asian Nuclear Futures: Energy Scenarios, is the second of two volumes concerned about the security of East Asia. It asks two questions. How much nuclear power does East Asia really need? Can East Asia rely less on nuclear power through 2035? The […]
This book, Alternative East Asian Nuclear Futures: Military Scenarios, is the first of two volumes. It examines why and how Japan and South Korea might acquire nuclear weapons. It also details how North Korea and China might ramp up their nuclear arms production. First released in draft […]
In Reactor-Grade Plutonium and Nuclear Weapons: Exploding the Myths, long-time defense analyst Gregory S. Jones draws from his decades of research using publicly available, unclassified information to debunk the persistent fallacy that reactor-grade plutonium cannot be used to build reliable nuclear weapons. This belief has […]
The conventional wisdom in Washington today is that nuclear nonproliferation – frequently a multilateral proposition – is not an immediate action item for the Trump administration. It is currently focused on bilateral transactional diplomacy. Those close to the administration, though, privately say the White House […]
In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, security experts worried about the spread of nuclear weapons. Now, after decades of academic analysis, some argue that nuclear weapons in more hands may be better. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump suggested the United States might be […]
In 2009, President Obama spotlighted nuclear terrorism as one of the top threats to international security, launching an international effort to identify, secure, and dispose of global stocks of weapons-usable nuclear materials—namely highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium. Since that time, three nuclear security summits […]
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