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In Ukraine, A New Chance to Judge the Patriot Missile
The much-lauded air-defense system has a decidedly mixed record. The Pentagon should watch its performance carefully.
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The Worst Thing About the Progressives’ Ukraine Letter
It revealed a deeply flawed conception of diplomacy.
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How Biden Can Leverage Missile Defense in His Summit with Putin
Putting it on the table would put the United States in the driver’s seat in strategic stability talks.
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Why Donald Trump’s Debt is a National Security Risk
If you owe someone a lot of money, they have leverage over you. To whom, exactly, does the U.S. president owe this money?
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Democrats, Be Bold on National Security
Even before the pandemic, it was clear that more money didn’t mean more real security.
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Progress, Peril, Hope: The Nuclear Decade in Review
U.S. policies that restrained and shrank atomic arsenals have been abandoned. Yet there are hopeful trends as well.
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Happy Birthday, Nuclear Arms Race
If we remember how we could have stopped it, we may yet find a way to do so.
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The Trump-Kim Summit Is Diplomacy. Democrats Should Support It.
Trump has wisely shifted tactics. Democrats should not let politics undermine reasonable diplomacy.
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Bolton’s Big Iran Con
There’s no evidence behind the national security adviser’s dire warnings about Tehran’s nuclear intentions.
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The Biggest Nuclear Threats of 2018 Will Follow Us into the New Year
We whistled past the graveyard this year. Let’s be smarter in 2019.
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A Serial Killing Spree That Threatens Us All
Can John Bolton be stopped before he further undermines U.S. national security?
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John McCain, Nuclear Disarmament, and What Might Have Been
If McCain had become president in 2008, the world might have had far fewer nuclear weapons today.
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A No-Cost, No-Brainer of a Nuclear Deal
Extending New START would be an easy win out of the Trump-Putin summit.
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Happy 50th Birthday to the NPT Nuclear Treaty
There’s good reason to celebrate the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968. We’re all still here, aren’t we? But the NPT regime's protections are being tested more profoundly than ever.
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Pompeo’s Secret Korea Trip May Not Save His Nomination, But It Could Save Trump’s Summit
The president needs a "win" somewhere so badly that at the summit he may accept a nuclear freeze and a determined process as a major victory. That is a good thing.
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Putin Just Gave Trump the Arms Race He Sought
'Let it be an arms race,' Trump said, two years ago. Now we have one. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Nuclear Nuts: Trump's New Policy Hypes The Threat and Brings Us Closer to War
The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review only bends reality to fit Trump’s warped views.
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Hawaii's Nuclear Wakeup Call (and Why We Should Take MLK's Advice)
The Cold War brought plenty of false alarms — but nothing like the situation we face today.
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Last Year’s Top 5 Worst Nuclear Nightmares (That Aren't Going Away)
Each of these threats has only gotten worse. Take one guess what (or who) I think remains the top nuclear threat to us...
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