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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 Peace and its about the decadelong effort to reduce Global Nuclear dangers. And were fortunate of the ...

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.