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But for the First Time Since maybe the 1980s, maybe even the 1960s, today were confronting a real possibility that Vladimir Putin might decide to use Nuclear Weapons in the war in ukraine. Terrifying possibility. This is a kind of wild eyed scenario that used to be able to read about only in the back pages of obscure rand reports, but its here in real life right now today. So the book were talking about today arrives at exactly the right time. The book is called winning and losing the Nuclear Pe...

The United States now finds itself in a favorable positionregarding the use of space for military purposes, but its leadshould not be taken for granted. Today's emerging space powers,such as China, Iran, and North Korea, are not likely to be thebenign force that the United States is today and will be in thefuture.

At the height of the Vietnam War, the US administration created the impression that the president was ‘crazy’ with his ‘hand on the nuclear button’.

To hear some critics describe it, the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty is a disaster in the making. “Dangerous, destabilizing and potentially counterproductive,” in the words of John McLaughlin, deputy CIA director from 2000 to 2004. Pulling out will “cause new tensions with European allies,” The New York Times opines. Adds the Stimson Center’s Michael Krepon in Forbes: “A new arms competition now beckons.” Really? Let’s consider a few pertinent facts.

Bulletin's associate editor for nuclear affairs, François Diaz-Maurin, provides his 2022 nuclear year in review, plus seven nuclear stories that marked 2022—and that you should read.

Each year, the American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) honors one outstanding reporter and one commentator with its Arthur Ross Media Awards for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis on Foreign Affairs.

A remembrance of Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Stimson Center, written by a longtime friend and colleague, noted nuclear policy expert Jeffrey Lewis. Krepon died last week after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Michael Krepon, who died July 16 at 75 at his home near Charlottesville, Va., was among the leading voices of nuclear nonproliferation, reaching policymakers on Capitol Hill and activists and academics worldwide for decades.

Despite suffering substantial losses from terrorism, India resists initiating military strikes, but there is worry about the limit to India's restraint, writes Michael Krepon in his analysis

Michael Krepon's new book provides a key history of the times, events, organizations and people involved in the pursuit of a peaceful approach to national and global security.