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Zack Brown

Research Assistant, Ploughshares Fund

Zack Brown is a research assistant at Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation that supports initiatives to reduce and eventually eliminate the dangers posed by nuclear weapons.
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China Is No Reason to Abandon the INF

Putting U.S. ground-launched intermediate-range missiles in the Pacific would be tactically ineffective and strategically destabilizing.

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Congress Rushes to Spend Billions on Space Weapons—Even if They Don’t Work

Even a bare-bones system would be ridiculously costly, and more likely to foster war than prevent it.

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The Helsinki Move That Could Save the INF Treaty

Putin offered suggestions for strategic stability. The U.S. should respond with proposals to revive verification.