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Jon Wolfsthal

Director of Global Risk, Federation of American Scientists

Jon Wolfsthal is is the Director of Global Risk at the Federation of American Scientists. He served as special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the National Security Council. He is co-author of Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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What ‘House of Dynamite’ gets right and wrong about nuclear command and control

The Netflix film is good on process and tech, but has one major flaw.

  • Jon Wolfsthal
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With Iran, First Prevent the Nukes

If Tehran gets the Bomb, every other regional problem immediately gets a lot harder.

  • Dalia Dassa Kaye and Jon Wolfsthal
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Force Won’t Much Slow Iranian Nuclear Progress, But Something Else Can

The historical record shows that diplomacy can do what force alone has not.

  • Ariane Tabatabai and Jon Wolfsthal
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Trump’s Nuclear Policy Has Failed

Recognizing that blunders and bad ideas have undermined stability and security is the first step toward recovery.

  • Jon Wolfsthal
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A US-Russia-China Arms Treaty? Extend New START First

Trump’s proposed pact is likely a pipe dream — or a smoke screen for scuttling yet another arms-control agreement.

  • Jon Wolfsthal
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Give Up on Denuclearizing North Korea

The question now is how to convince it not to use its weapons.

  • Jon Wolfsthal, The Atlantic
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Scuttle the Iran Nuke Deal? That Approach Didn’t Stop North Korea

The Trump administration should learn from George W. Bush’s 2002 decision to tear up an intact, if imperfect, nuclear agreement.

  • Jon Wolfsthal