nuclear weapons

Why British foreign policy think tanks defend the status quo

Why British foreign policy think tanks defend the status quoby Ian SinclairMorning Star29 March 2023 Though it hasn’t received any coverage in the mainstream media, new academic research raises serious questions about British foreign policy think tanks and their influence on policymaking and public debate. Published in the peer-reviewed International Relations journal, the article from […]

A Brief History of Russia-U.S. Nuclear Arms Control and Russia’s Suspension of the New START

The new START treaty officially called the Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, was signed by Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev and American President Barack Obama in April 2010 in Prague. This nuclear arms reduction agreement entered into force, after being ratified, a year later. In fact, this agreement is the … Continue reading A Brief History of Russia-U.S.

Deliberate Ambiguity: Israel’s Nukes Are the Greatest Threat to the Middle East

US support for Israel is not confined to ensuring the latter has a ‘military edge’ over its neighbors, but to also ensure Israel remains the region’s only superpower, even if that entails escaping international accountability for the development of WMDs.
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SCOTT RITTER: The Onus Is on Biden & Putin

September 30, Wars should be avoided at all costs. Nuclear conflict should never be contemplated. These two truisms are often spoken, but rarely adhered to. Wars occur all too frequently, and so long as nations possess nuclear weapons, their use  is contemplated on a continuous basis. The ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict has put the world’s two largest nuclear powers on opposing […]
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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 […]