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Recent Publications
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Everything Counts: Building a Control Regime for Nonstrategic Nuclear Warheads in Europe
A team of experts led by Rose Gottemoeller has produced a new report for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies on non...
The Standstill Conundrum: The Advent of Second-Strike Vulnerability and Options to Address It
Emerging and disruptive technologies spell an uncertain future for second-strike retaliatory forces. New sensors and big data analysis may render mobile missiles and submarines vulnerable to...
The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations
With the rapid rise of China and the relative decline of the United States, the topic of power transition conflicts is back in popular and scholarly attention.
Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons
Based on three years of intensive research and analysis of the Nuclear Archives, this new book from the Institute presents a compelling account of Iran’s secret plans to develop nuclear weapons....
Socio-technical multi-criteria evaluation of long-term spent nuclear fuel management strategies: A framework and method
In the absence of a federal geologic repository or consolidated, interim storage in the United States, commercial spent fuel will remain stranded at some 75 sites across the country. Currently,...
Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order
An assessment of Russia that suggests that we should look beyond traditional means of power to understand its strength and capacity to disrupt international politics.
The Birth of Nuclear Eternity
This chapter reconnects modes of futures-making with the requirements of democracy by focusing on the naturalization of nuclear weapons and their removal from the realm of democratic choice at a...
Teach What You Preach: A Comprehensive Guide to the Policy Memo as a Methods Teaching Tool
The policy memo is particularly suited for introducing basic methodological concepts to upper-division undergraduate students of political science, argues Oriana Skylar Mastro.
Negotiating the New START Treaty
Rose Gottemoeller, the US chief negotiator of the New START treaty—and the first woman to lead a major nuclear arms negotiation—delivers in this book an invaluable insider’s account of the...
Unfit for purpose: reassessing the development and deployment of French nuclear weapons (1956–1974)
This article presents the first reassessment of the strategic rationality and credibility of French nuclear weapons policy before 1974.
European nuclear weapons? Zombie debates and nuclear realities
In February 2020, French president Emmanuel Macron invited all interested European states to a “strategic dialogue” on the supposed contribution of France’s nuclear arsenal to European collective...
The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy
December 2020
During the past eight months of the global COVID pandemic, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been active in promoting China’s claims in the South China Sea. This essay evaluates PLA...
Does the Noncombatant Immunity Norm Have Stopping Power? A Debate
October 2020
Our 2015 survey experiment—reported in the 2017 International Security article “Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran”—asked a representative sample of Americans to choose between continuing a ground...
Rethinking Nuclear Arms Control
September 2020
Where is nuclear arms control—negotiated restraints on the deadliest weapons of mass destruction—headed? This 50-year tool of US national security policy is currently under attack.
Al Qaeda’s Leader Is Old, Bumbling—and a Terrorist Mastermind
September 2020
Nineteen years after 9/11, al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has yet to achieve the household notoriety evoked by his immediate predecessor, Osama bin Laden.
Al Qaeda’s Franchise Reboot
September 2020
Nineteen years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, does al Qaeda still pose a significant threat to U.S. national security?
Can China’s Military Win the Tech War?
July 2020
As the Chinese government has set out to harness the growing strength of the Chinese technology sector to bolster its military, policymakers in the United States have reacted with mounting alarm.
Particulate Plutonium Released from the Fukushima Daiichi Meltdowns
July 2020
A new study reveals particles that were released from nuclear plants damaged in the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami contained small amounts of radioactive plutonium. View full article
Why didn’t the U.S. rebuke Russia for its Taliban bounty deal? Four things to know.
July 2020
President Trump is in the middle of another controversy involving Russia.
Donald Trump Could Lose the Election by Authorizing a New Nuclear Weapons Test
June 2020
Polls in the United States and nine allied countries in Europe and Asia show that public support for a nuclear test is very low.
How the West could win a technological ‘shadow war’ with China
June 2020
A new shadow war is underway within the International Telecommunication Union, one of the obscure organizations that sets global technical standards.
How to use the next stimulus to counter China
May 2020
“Build back better” was the mantra New Orleans adopted after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
People
Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
Amy Zegart Senior Fellow Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, by courtesy, Political Science 
Michael Tomz Affiliated Faculty, CDDRL and CISAC Professor, Political Science, Chair of the Department of Political Science 
