December 15, 2025
The following describes a new special issue of the Nonproliferation Review.
The Nonproliferation Review, the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, has just published Volume 31, Issues 4–6. This collection features articles written by members of the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group of the Harvard–MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence. The group’s co-chairs Hassan Elbahtimy, Rebecca Davis Gibbons, and CNS Professor of the Practice Stephen Herzog acted as guest special-issue editors in a process overseen by journal co-editor Daniel Horner. Articles in the issue engage in rigorous interrogations of the historical and conceptual foundations of nuclear-deterrence theory. Contributors included Jeffrey W. Knopf, Seifudein Adem, Leondardo Bandarra and Carmen Wunderlich, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, and Nicola Leveringhaus.
Continue reading the special issue at the Nonproliferation Review.
