Nuclear Nonproliferation
Kazakhstan’s Enduring Lessons for Nuclear Disarmament
In the past two months, a diplomatic offensive has put Kazakhstan at the center of Eurasian diplomacy and strengthened nuclear cooperation between the United States and Kazakhstan. Today’s successes have...
Iran Doesn’t Really Want a Nuclear Deal, British Spy Chief Says
Richard Moore, the director of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, said at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday that he was skeptical of Iran’s intentions in its nuclear negotiations,...
Protesting the Bomb: How a Nun and Fellow Activists Breached the Y-2 National Security Complex
In 2012, Sister Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli entered the Y-12 National Security Complex using nothing but a pair of bolt cutters. It was remarkable, given the intense...
Glitches in the System: A Call for Transformational Change in the U.S. Nuclear Community
Institutional investment in individuals and their ideas not only encourages diversity and inclusion but will result in transformational change in all aspects of the nuclear community. In this week’s episode...
Iran: Nuclear Negotiations to Resume by Late November
Iranian deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani, tapped by President Ebrahim Raisi to lead the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear negotiations with the United States, announced that multilateral...
Joseph R. DeTrani: How Joe Biden Will Take on North Korea
Editor’s Note: As Election Day rapidly approaches, and with it a potential change of presidential administration, the Center for the National Interest’s Korean Studies team decided to ask dozens of the world’s...
Trump Needs Iran Deal to Engage Russia and North Korea
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to talk to North Korea and improve relations with Russia—the two countries which currently present the greatest challenges on nuclear security. If Trump is serious...
U.S. Policy toward Iran, One Year After Lausanne
We have reached the one-year mark since Iran and the P5+1 agreed on a set of a parameters that became the basis for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)....
Changing China’s North Korea Calculus
Just weeks after its fourth nuclear test, North Korea’s ballistic missile launch over the weekend—in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions—makes it abundantly clear that Pyongyang is racing to build...