Donald Trump Is an Idiot Savant on Nuclear Policy

The Republican frontrunner has stumbled across the US military’s biggest secret: it has no idea what it’s doing with its nuclear arsenal.

The Nuclear Security Summit Will Leave Unfinished Work

The uneven and limited nature of the summit process means that the nuclear security regime will be a patchwork of initiatives, with far too many holes.

Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention 2007

A Strategy for the Chemical Weapons Convention

In the absence of further innovation and action, the Chemical Weapons Convention may ‘become a hammer without a nail.’

Radiological Cancer Therepy (Source: WikiMedia Commons)

Treatment, Not Terror

A new study by Miles A. Pomper, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, and George M. Moore, explores how to both promote cancer therapy in developing countries and prevent radiological terrorism.

Upcoming Monterey CA

North Korea’s WMD Programs: An Open Source View

MARCH 10, 2016: Seminar with Melissa Hanham and Catherine Dill, research associates of CNS.

NPR Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge

2016 McElvany Challenge: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Proliferation?

Enter and help us find innovative ways to resolve today’s most urgent challenges relating to chemical, biological, nuclear, and radiological weapons.

Nukes in (Cyber)space: The Hazards of Cross-Domain Deterrence

MARCH 2, 2016: Seminar with Erik Gartzke, associate professor of Political Science at the University of California at San Diego.

Should We Fear the Unconventional? Why ISIL’s Chemical Weapons Are Causing the West to Panic

A review of future considerations in global attitudes to weapons of mass destruction proliferation by non-state actors.

Iran Preparing for Possible Rocket Launch

Satellite analysis indicates an imminent test by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Kwangmyongsong missile

Are You Scared About North Korea’s Thermonuclear ICBM?

Jeffrey Lewis offers a self-dubbed “wildly unpopular plan” to counter Pyongyang’s missile program.