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Reagan was right about missile defense
More than 30 years ago, President Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative – a bold vision to defend America from nuclear missiles with something...
Trump administration risks Reagan’s legacy on nuclear disarmament By Matthew Bolton
“A nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought,” declared U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a 1983 speech to the Japanese parliament. “I will not...
Trump, Reagan, and Missile Defense By Jerry Rogers
President Ronald Reagan was frequently two steps ahead of everyone else—the media, the Congress, the Soviets. Reagan’s ‘head-for-knowing’ was evidenced by...
Two to Tango With Nuclear Weapons By Peter D. Zimmerman
Somewhere in the American southwest, not so very far from civilization, there is a fenced and guarded compound within another fenced and guarded compound in the...
The Nuclear Test Ban: Time to Finish What We Started By Sergei Ryabkov and Lassina Zerbo
The growing global concerns about North Korea’s nuclear weapons capabilities and tensions in the region are a stark reminder of the need to re-energize the cooperative,...
How to Make the Nuclear Button Safer By Michael Krepon
As we mark the centenary of the United States’ entry into World War I, I recall the words of a participant in the Versailles Treaty, which ended that conflict....
President Trump should heed Churchill’s warning not to escalate arms races By Dallas Morning News
As Winston Churchill warned, if we ramp up the arms race, we’ll just “make the rubble bounce.”The stakes are even higher today because so many...
Donald, Have I Got a Deal for You By Thomas L. Friedman
Every president has an early foreign policy test, and Donald Trump is no exception. Trump’s test is actually already in progress, and it bears some resemblance...
New nukes? No thanks. By Daryl G. Kimball & Charles Carrigan
So far, President Trump has provided few details about his approach to his most important job as president: reducing the risks of unconstrained global nuclear competition...
North Korea Is Practicing for Nuclear War By Jeffrey Lewis
On Monday morning, North Korea launched four missiles from the northwest corner of the country that traveled 620 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan. While...
