Analysis

Anticipating the Trump Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review

VIDEO: Brad Roberts of Lawrence Livermore National Labs offers his insight about the potential nuclear policy of the Trump administration.

Malaysian Police Say Kim Jong Nam Killed with VX Nerve Agent

VX is a chemical weapon and is banned under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. Experts available for comment.

First Atomic Bomb from China

China’s Happy to Sit Out the Nuclear Arms Race

China has figured out low-cost deterrence and the limits of nuclear weapons.

Flag of Iran (Src: Wikimedia Commons)

Trump Administration Sanctions Iran After Missile Test

The White House announced new sanctions on Iran following its recent ballistic-missile test. CNS experts are available for comment.

Thomas Schelling, Re-Explored

Joshua Pollack revisits the seminal works by the late great theorist on deterrence in Europe and compellence in Asia.

Donald Trump August 19, 2015 (Credit: Michael Vadon, Wikimedia Commons)

President-Elect Trump Calls to “Strengthen and Expand” US Nuclear Capability

CNS experts available for comment.

Iran nuclear deal: agreement in Vienna. From left to right: Foreign ministers/secretaries of state Wang Yi (China), Laurent Fabius (France), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Germany), Federica Mogherini (EU), Mohammad Javad Zarif (Iran), Philip Hammond (UK), John Kerry (USA).

Deal or No Deal: What Should Be the Fate of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action?

With skepticism steeping in both countries, will the deal survive?

The Iranian Nuclear Deal – Myths and Misinformation - Joe Brazda

The Iranian Nuclear Deal – Myths and Misinformation

VIDEO: CNS’ Joe Brazda dispels misinformation put forward by members of Congress and presidential candidates, including president-elect Donald Trump.

Photo taken during a tour by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, showing one of more than 1,000 illegally acquired US-made pressure transducers at the facility. Source: Website archive of the president of Iran, www.president.ir (as accessed by the Institute for Science and International Security, 2014).

OP#25: Outlawing State-Sponsored Nuclear Procurement Programs & Recovery of Misappropriated Nuclear Goods

Occasional Paper #25: A call for condemning the programs and readying penalties for future cases.

President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and other US representatives meeting with General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Secretary Andrei Gromyko, Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, and others aboard a Russian train headed for Vladivostok, November 23, 1974. Image courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. (Src: Wikimedia Commons)

A Non-Ideological Reframing of the US-Russian Arms-Control Agenda

The disappearance of US superiority in non-nuclear capabilities should be the impetus for a return to traditional arms-control in US-Russia relations.