Summary In this startling book, now in paperback, the bestselling author of Explaining Hitler warns that a nuclear World War III is not only the most massive and…
Country or Region: North Korea
Summary This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom…
Abstract North Korea has been one of the world’s most active suppliers of ballistic missile systems since the mid-1980s, but the nature of its missile…
Abstract In the past few years, horizontal and vertical proliferation have collided. That is, the need for significant strengthening of the nonproliferation regime in the…
Abstract The policies toward countries aspiring to acquire nuclear weapons continue to be heavily contested, differing even among countries that consider nuclear proliferation as one…
Abstract This article explores the potential impact of U.S. disarmament leadership on the nuclear diplomacy of North Korea and Iran, the “defiant states.” The first…
Abstract North Korea has the bomb but not much of a nuclear arsenal. For fifty years, it pursued the plutonium path to the bomb in…
Abstract The Obama administration has made a great effort to increase the role of advanced conventional weaponry in US national security thinking and practice, in…
Abstract In this Nuclear Notebook, guest author Timothy McDonnell reviews the five states that developed nuclear weapons outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—India, Israel, North Korea,…
Abstract The authors calculate that some 125,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945, about 97 percent of them by the United States and the…
Abstract As one who has led inspection teams in North Korea, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and other nations, Olli Heinonen says he cannot discount the possibility…
Abstract Although the domestic politics of engaging Pyongyang will be complicated, a possibility exists for securing bipartisan support that has never been present before. A…
Summary Members of the New Beginnings policy study group of American experts on Northeast Asia, led by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and The Korea…
Summary Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of…
Abstract This Asia Policy roundtable brings together experts and former policy practitioners to assess the opportunities and challenges arising from the United States’ strategic rebalancing…
