List of Nuclear Weapons articles
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on during the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) North Korea Had Spurned Talks With U.S. Due to Trump’s Latest Sanctions
Despite months of secret contacts, North Korea has been playing hard to get back to the negotiating table – even as Rex Tillerson reaches out again.
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The U.S. capitol building on Sep. 27, 2013. (Getty Images) Warning to Congress: Bad Iran Legislation Is Worse Than No Iran Legislation
President Trump can’t let the House and Senate play politics with Iranian nuclear deal.
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The nuclear football. (Wikimedia Commons) It Is High Time to Do Away With the President’s Nuclear ‘Football’
The recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on nuclear weapons introduced some unsettling possibilities.
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Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States; U.S. President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House Dec. 4, in Washington, D.C. (The New York Historical Society via Wikimedia Commons; Alex Wong/Getty Images) We’re finding out now what might have happened if Burr had won the election of 1800 & what that means for North Korea
America's close call in 1800 is back with a vengeance
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North Korean soldiers during a parade in Pyongyang on Oct. 10. (Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images) China Should Send 30,000 Troops Into North Korea
The only way to stand down from a nuclear confrontation is to reassure Kim Jong Un that the United States won’t — and can’t — invade.
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Crew members aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier. Three Carriers Carrying on SE of North Korea
3 carriers with a message for North Korea
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A screen shows footage of the launch of a Hwasong-12 rocket in Pyongyang September 16. (Kim Won-Jin/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: North Korea Readying New Round of Launches, Intel Says
Iranian general spotted on front lines in Syria; U.S. sends more commandos to Somalia
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A deactivated Titan II nuclear missile in Green Valley, Arizona on May 12, 2015. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) President Trump and the Risks of Nuclear War
How command and control works when the military wakes up the president vs. when the president wakes up the military.
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Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang talks to U.S. President Donald Trump at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit in the Vietnamese city of Danang on Nov. 11. (Photo credit Jorge Silva/AFP/Getty Images) Why Cozying Up to Trump Works
The rest of the world may not particularly like the U.S. president’s bluster, but playing to his ego is a pretty good strategy.
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A military aide carries the "nuclear football" on the South Lawn of the White House on April 25 in Washington, DC. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images) Congress Questions Trump’s Exclusive Hold on the Nuclear Football
In an extraordinary hearing, lawmakers plan to review presidential powers to launch a nuclear strike.
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The band Spinal Tap in 1984. (Pete Cronin/Redferns) Our Missile Defenses Go to 11
But that’s not nearly enough to safeguard us from North Korea’s nukes.
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An IRGC Raad air defense system on display in Tehran on Sept. 21, 2012. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images) Did Iran Sanctions Make the Revolutionary Guard Stronger?
Sanctions regimes aren't simple, and they only work when their negative secondary effects do not outweigh their primary achievements.
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Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaks at a rally for Senator Durenberger Feb. 8, 1982. (Michael Evans/The White House/Getty Images) Edgar on Strategy (Part VIII): Reagan, Reykjavik, and strategic imagination
Imagination and fiction are essential elements of strategy.
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A nuclear danger sign near the Belarusian village of Dronki. (Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images) Lithuania, Leery of Moscow, Spars With Belarus Over Nuclear Reactor
Fearing the Kremlin’s grand design, and another nuclear disaster, Vilnius has turned a power plant into a battleground.
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Senator Bob Corker speaks to the press on Sep. 9, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Corker and Cotton’s False Promises Would Push Iran Toward Nuclearization
The Republican senators want to keep the JCPOA while adding new restrictions. It won’t work.
