What might the next arms race look like? Assuming current nuclear trends continue, the next two decades will test America’s security and that of its closest allies as they never have been tested before. Well before 2030, the United Kingdom could find its nuclear forces eclipsed not only by those of Pakistan, but of Israel, North Korea, and India. France may share the same fate. Meanwhile, China could conceivably achieve nuclear parity in deployed nuclear weapons with the United States. Finally, highly accurate conventional missiles and drones, as well as the space-based systems and services needed to guide and defend against them are spreading both to rogue states and proxy forces. As a result, the next arms race, will be quite different than what we experienced during the Cold War.
Mark Cooper, the Vermont Law School Institute’s senior research fellow for economic analysis, explains how the French approach advocated by some is a failed model and why U.S. wind and solar industries would suffer if the U.S. embraced such a standard. Sep 14, 2010 AUTHOR: […]
In a major, fresh analysis of the Russian military literature, Dr. Jacob Kipp, former Deputy Director, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies, argues that how Russia chooses to cope with the strategic challenges China poses, rather than any developments regarding NATO, the Balkans, or […]
In this study, Steve Lukasik, former director of the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, assesses the potential of emerging, highly precise conventional military technologies to accomplish the missions currently assigned to nuclear weapons. Jul 19, 2010 AUTHOR: Stephen J. Lukasik Precision Technologies as […]
Richard L. Russell details the growing nuclear aspirations of a number of Middle Eastern states in a National Defense University’s Joint Forces Quarterly article that reflects research he did for NPEC. Jun 28, 2010 AUTHOR: Richard L. Russell Off and Running-The Middle East Nuclear Arms […]
In a new analysis for NPEC, Greg Jones examines recent estimates from the Defense Intelligence Agency that Iran is 3 to 5 years from getting a bomb and concludes that despite these optimistic U.S. predictions, Tehran has the capacity to enrich enough uranium for a […]
The Council on Foreign Relations has released a report it commissioned NPEC’s Executive Director to write, “Controlling the Further Spread of Nuclear Weapons”, where he argues that the present U.S. approach to arms control overreaches, and that policymakers should include measures that can gain bipartisan […]
A new NPEC report by Frank Von Hippel “Spent Fuel Management in South Korea: The Illogic of Pyroprocessing” calls into question South Korea’s plans to use pyroprocessing to recycle its spent fuel stores. Mar 05, 2010 AUTHOR: Frank von Hippel Spent Fuel Management in South […]
NPEC releases new analysis by Greg Jones on Iran’s uranium enrichment program after the IAEA’s latest assessment was released February 18th and finds that Tehran could have the a bomb’s worth of material by the end of 2010. Feb 23, 2010 AUTHOR: Greg Jones Irans […]
Reuters reported on November 12th that Iran has 1,700 to 1,800 kilograms of low enriched uranium (LEU) – enough to make one to two bombs, and the IAEA released a report on November 16th in the wake of its inspection of Iran’s new enrichment facility. […]
Reuters reported on November 12th that Iran has 1,700 to 1,800 kilograms of low enriched uranium (LEU) – enough to make one to two bombs, and the IAEA released a report on November 16th in the wake of its inspection of Iran’s new enrichment facility. […]
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