NPT Regime

Ukraine: War, Statecraft, and Geopolitical Conflict —the nuclear danger

[Prefatory Note: The following interview was previously published in September by the online Global Governance Forum. My responses to the questions posed by Aslı Bâli have been somewhat updated to take account of intervening developments. Aslı was my last PhD student at Princeton, has emerged as a star of the UCLA School of Law in recent […]

Nuclear Complacency and the Dangerous Drift Toward a New Cold War with China

[Prefatory Note: The text below is a somewhat modified text of an interview conducted by Daniel Falcone, and published in Counterpunch on August 11, 2020. I am increasingly worried by the either/or quality of the U.S. November elections effectively suppresses concerns about a bipartisan drift toward a second cold war focused on China as geopolitical […]

Contesting Nuclearism: Management or Transformation? An Urgent Challenge

[Prefatory Note: The essay below, longer than most of my posts, started off as a tribute to my friend David Krieger, serving as a chapter in a forthcoming book honoring his dedication to the abolition of nuclear weaponry by way of a treaty regime being prepared under the editorship of Rick Wayman, now President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Krieger’s successor. In the modified form published below the essay calls attention to the generally unappreciated tensions between managing nuclear weapons and eliminating them altogether.