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Avoiding an unintentional space war: Lessons from Cold War nuclear diplomacy, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Maxwell Simon, Sam Wilson, May 13, 2021 In July of 2020, senior US and Russian officials held talks about space security and strategic stability, the first such talks between the two countries dedicated to these issues in seven years. The meetings…
Maxwell Simon
Maxwell Simon is a program coordinator and research assistant with the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. His research focuses on how emerging technologies intersect with nuclear weapons issues. He is part of a team creating a multi-phase outer space-based arms control negotiation simulation exercise, for the use of early and mid-career researchers from academic, military, government, and private sector backgrounds. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where he studied government and history.
Nuclear weapon cuts damage arms control February 15 America s unilateral nuclear restraint does not appear to induce reciprocal restraint on the part of Russia or China, according to the author of this commentary. (Senior Airman Abbigayle Williams/U.S. Air Force) As the Biden administration and 117th Congress begin ranking their priorities on U.S. nuclear modernization and arms control, the United States stands at a critical juncture where decisions made now will affect the U.S. nuclear force well into the 2070s and 2080s the expected service lives of several nuclear delivery systems in development. The Biden administration could follow the Obama administration’s model and pursue further nuclear arms control agreements while modernizing the U.S. nuclear triad. The other option, the one supported by many progressive think tanks, is to vastly scale back U.S. nuclear modernization and unilaterally eliminate hundreds of U.S. nuclear weapons in an attempt to persuade Russia