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Everything Counts: Building a Control Regime for Nonstrategic Nuclear Warheads in Europe
News / May 11, 2022
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration insisted in arms control talks with Russia that a follow-on agreement to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) should cover all nuclear weapons and that such an agreement should focus on the nuclear warheads themselves.
Belarus has good reason for concern over Putin’s nuclear intimidation
Commentary / May 10, 2022
In a May 5 interview with the Associated Press, Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka expressed concern that the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War could see the use of nuclear weapons. Lukashenka called such use “unacceptable because it’s right next to us.” He has good reason for concern.
Ukraine And The Cloud Of Genocide
Commentary / May 10, 2022
When confronted with the murderous policies of the Third Reich on the eastern front in the late summer of 1941, Winston Churchill stated: “We are in the presence of a crime without a name.”
Russia Victory Day and War in Ukraine
Q&As / May 9, 2022
Norman Naimark discusses the war crimes committed in Ukraine and Putin's comments on the war during the Russia Victory Day parade.
Nuclear weapon-free zones and the issue of maritime transit in Latin America
News / May 9, 2022
Why did Latin American states exclude a prohibition on maritime nuclear transit from their regional nuclear weapon-free zone (NWFZ)?
How the west became less anxious about Russia’s nuclear threat
Q&As / May 5, 2022
Despite sabre-rattling US and allies believe deploying such weapons would be too risky for Moscow
How Has Vladimir Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Upended the World Nuclear Order?
Commentary / April 29, 2022
Longtime Corporation grantee Siegfried Hecker, one of the world’s foremost nuclear security and policy experts, offers his perspective on how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is as momentous for nuclear affairs as the dissolution of the Soviet Union
Explaining Latin America's Contradictory Reactions to the War in Ukraine
Commentary / April 27, 2022
Nearly every Latin American country opposed the U.S. war in Afghanistan in 2001. Most also opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Why is the region more divided on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine today?
Siegfried Hecker: Putin has destroyed the world nuclear order. How should the democracies respond?
Q&As / April 21, 2022
One of the world’s foremost nuclear security and policy experts, Sig Hecker has spent much of an illustrious career working to enhance cooperation among US and Russian scientists and their governments in hopes of reducing nuclear risk.
Poll: Russia’s nuclear saber-rattling is rattling neighbors’ nerves
Commentary / April 15, 2022
While Ukrainians fight or flee Russia’s bombardment of their cities, many Europeans feel a palpable, renewed nuclear fear.
What is Ukraine’s best security guarantee?
Commentary / April 12, 2022
Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war on Ukraine has run nearly seven weeks.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks Discusses Importance of Strategic Partnerships with Stanford Faculty and Students
News / April 12, 2022
A visit from the Department of Defense’s deputy secretary gave the Gordian Knot Center a prime opportunity to showcase how its faculty and students are working to build an innovative workforce that can help solve the nation’s most pressing national security challenges.
Russo-Ukrainian War Highlights Cyber Threats to Satellite Communications
Commentary / April 12, 2022
Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine demonstrates that hypothetical scenarios of cyberattacks paralyzing satellite communications are already taking place.
Through the Glass Darkly: Ukraine and the Question of Genocide
Commentary / April 11, 2022
What is genocide? Did the Soviet Holodomor (man-made famine) in 1930s Ukraine fit this definition? Do the recent atrocities in Bucha? Has the Russian military conducted itself in a similar manner in prior conflicts? Is there a pattern there? Find out as Sean Patrick Hazlett meets with Stanford Professor Dr. Norman Naimark.
Are We Dumb about Intelligence?
Q&As / April 5, 2022
Amy Zegart on the Capabilities of American Intel Gathering
What Happens If There’s A Nuclear Attack
Q&As / April 5, 2022
Nearly 70% of Americans surveyed by the American Psychological Association said they worry the invasion of Ukraine could potentially lead to nuclear war and they fear that we could be at the beginning stages of World War III.
Russia-Ukraine: A Negotiated Settlement will be Difficult
Commentary / March 31, 2022
All wars come to an end. One side may be conquered, the attacker may give up and withdraw, or the warring parties can negotiate a settlement.
Russia’s ambitions, Ukraine’s resistance, and the West’s response
Commentary / March 28, 2022
On March 15, as the Russia-Ukraine war neared the three-week mark, Brookings experts held a discussion on developments in the conflict so far and what might be coming.
Not much happened after India’s accidental cruise missile launch into Pakistan—this time.
Commentary / March 25, 2022
India accidentally fired a cruise missile into Pakistan on March 9, 2022. The missile was not armed and no lives were lost. Both sides projected calm in the incident’s aftermath. Still, the incident raises questions about the safety of India’s cruise missile systems, especially given the real risk of accidental escalation between nuclear-armed adversaries.
Long in the Making: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Q&As / March 18, 2022
A week before Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, unleashing the biggest military operation in Europe since World War II, three experts on Russia were interviewed on Zoom and email by Carol Giacomo, chief editor of Arms Control Today, about the origins of the crisis and what an eventual solution might involve.
Experts puzzled as to why Russia has not launched major cyber attack against Ukraine or US
News / March 17, 2022
A few possible reasons: the United States has been helping Ukraine strengthen its cyber infrastructure, U.S. cyber offensive forces may have been disrupting Russian attacks against Ukraine, and the Russians may not be capable of conducting such a large-scale attack.
Israel and Iran’s Cyberwar Is Increasingly Targeting Civilians
News / March 16, 2022
In 2010, the world was introduced to Stuxnet, a sophisticated malware developed by Israel and the United States that successfully targeted and damaged the Iranian uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Named “the world's first digital weapon,” Stuxnet changed the way the global security communities perceived the range of cyber threats.
The World’s Most Dangerous Man
Commentary / March 16, 2022
Putin’s Unconstrained Power Over Russia’s Nuclear Arsenal. Putin has turned his government into a personalist regime: a system in which he monopolizes meaningful authority.
Introduction to Issues in International Security
News / March 15, 2022
A new video curriculum series is released.
The truth about nuclear deterrence
Commentary / March 15, 2022
Putin might well believe that a world without Russia in its rightful position of power is not worth existing. We can’t be sure of what Putin is thinking, or whether his decision making is compromised – all we can do is prepare for the possibility of Russia’s use of nuclear weapons.