Not Your Father’s Arms Control: Challenges for Stabilizing Military Confrontation in Europe Published: 29 April 2020 Background The old arms control framework between Russia and the West does not work any more. The erosion of central arms control treaties has led to new tensions between NATO and Moscow. A new approach aimed at reducing tensions in Europe must take into account that central geopolitical coordinates have changed, and that new weapon technologies are rendering the old arms control paradigms obsolete. Igor Istomin
Assessing the Need to Regulate U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike Systems Published: 19 December 2013 The United States intent to deploy a new Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS). This short paper assesses the chief challenges the United States faces in allaying Russian concerns about about CPGS deployments. Dennis M. Gormley
Engaging North Korea and promoting disarmament and non-proliferation in Northeast Asia Published: 21 October 2013 The US and its allies have engaged in efforts to stop North Korean nuclear program at least three times, every time ending up with a sense of betrayal. Now, it has become clear that North Korea did not really have the intention to abandon its nuclear program. Nobuyasu Abe
How Much Is Enough? Nuclear Expansions in South Asia Published: 15 October 2013 For three years, Pakistan has single-handedly – and successfully – blocked the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva from discussing an effort that would put a cap on fissile materials. Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy
U.S. Military Advantages and the Future of Nuclear Arms Control Published: 10 October 2013 The United States and Russia are implementing the New START Treaty, which requires that each side reduce to 1550 deployed strategic warheads on 700 deployed strategic missiles and bombers by 2018. The Obama administration would like to go further. Doing so, however, will require that Washington address several related issues, first and foremost missile defense. Steven Pifer
