Nuclear Policy

 
In the spotlight
 

Nuclear Reductions

Concrete confidence-building measures could help build trust between the United States and Russia, writes James Acton.

 

'Do Unto Others'

President Barack Obama should articulate a narrowed framework for the legitimate use of nuclear weapons, writes George Perkovich in a new book.

Nuclear Security

Mark Hibbs analyzes the legacy of the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit.

Safeguards in the Spotlight

The IAEA has some outreach to do in a lot of states that are having difficulty meeting their safeguards obligations, writes Mark Hibbs.

The Fukushima Hangover

Listen to Charles Ferguson, Tomoko Kurokawa, and James Acton analyze Japan's nuclear dilemma.

India's Naval Rise

Iskander RehmanGeorge Perkovich, Oriana Skylar Mastro, and Nilanthi Samaranayake discuss regional perceptions of New Delhi's naval rise. 

 
  • Op-Ed
    Rich Lowry’s Misguided View of Lincoln
    George Perkovich June 14, 2013 Politico

    The big disputes between libertarian-conservatives and progressives revolve around whether justice can be reduced to individual liberty and property rights, and whether individual liberty and property rights should be privileged over correcting injustices.

     
  • Other Publications
    From an Ocean of Peace to a Sea of Friends
    Iskander Rehman June 13, 2013 Brookings Institution

    Although New Delhi has long recognized the importance of the Indian Ocean, it has only recently begun to display the underpinnings of a true maritime geostrategy.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Safeguards in the Spotlight
    Mark Hibbs June 9, 2013 Arms Control Wonk

    The IAEA has some outreach to do in a lot of states that are having difficulty meeting their safeguards obligations because they don’t understand them, don’t prioritize them, or don’t have enough resources.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Shallow Nations, Deep Waters
    Iskander Rehman May 31, 2013 Diplomat

    For relatively small coastal states such as Pakistan and Israel, the quest for maritime depth has given birth to naval nuclear force structures with the potential to undermine stability during a crisis.

     
  • Q&A
    Iran’s Nuclear Advance
    Mark Hibbs May 23, 2013

    The case for a limited Israeli or U.S. military intervention to take out Tehran’s nuclear capability seems to be losing credibility by the day.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Reconverting Iran's U3O8 to UF6
    Mark Hibbs April 27, 2013 Arms Control Wonk

    Iran could process its entire inventory of 20%-enriched U3O8 to produce UF6 in a matter of a few weeks, the fruit of Iran's cumulative nuclear chemistry R&D and industrial-scale experience over three decades.

     
  • Proliferation Analysis
    Debating China's No-First-Use Commitment: James Acton Responds
    James M. Acton April 22, 2013 中文

    Any shift away from no-first use is likely to be viewed by the United States and its allies—rightly or wrongly—as provocative.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Is China Changing Its Position on Nuclear Weapons?
    James M. Acton April 18, 2013 New York Times

    A recent Chinese white paper on defense omits a promise that China will never use nuclear weapons first, an explicit pledge had been the cornerstone of Beijing’s stated nuclear policy for the last half-century.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Chung Mong-joon, the 123, and the State-Level Approach
    Mark Hibbs April 14, 2013 Arms Control Wonk

    During the coming week, the United States and South Korea will again attack the sticking point that since 2011 has bedeviled the negotiation of a new bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement.

     
  • Op-Ed
    How North Korea Built Its Nuclear Program
    Mark Hibbs April 12, 2013 Atlantic

    If the non-proliferation regime is going to prove sustainable for many decades in the future, it will need to rely on political good will between the countries that don’t have nuclear weapons and the countries that do have them.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Is a Nuclear Iran Inevitable?
    Mark Hibbs April 12, 2013 Atlantic

    A nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran is by no means inevitable.

     
  • Op-Ed
    South Korea’s Nuclear Defense
    Mark Hibbs April 8, 2013 Arms Control Wonk

    Washington and Seoul are working on a diplomatic response to accompany their resolve not to blink should Kim Jong-un launch an attack, and they also want to wrap up two years of negotiations on a new bilateral agreement for nuclear cooperation.

     
  • Testimony
    Evidence to the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future
    James M. Acton October 12, 2010

    Nuclear proliferation is a political problem and the key to assessing proliferation risks is political judgment.

     
  • Testimony
    Revisiting the Role of Nuclear Weapons
    James M. Acton August 25, 2010 Remarks at 22nd United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues

    U.S. nuclear strategy would have to change in order to enable deep reductions in nuclear weapon numbers and U.S. allies have a role in facilitating such a change.

     
  • Testimony
    Obama's Nuclear Agenda: Is Full Disarmament Possible?
    George Perkovich April 29, 2010 Pacific Council Teleconference

    The Obama administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review reduces the role and number of U.S. nuclear weapons, identifies nuclear terrorism as the principal threat to the United States, and works to maintain a stable strategic relationship with China.

     
  • Testimony
    Iranian Political and Nuclear Realities and U.S. Policy Options
    Karim Sadjadpour March 3, 2009 Senate Foreign Relations Committee

    U.S. policy options toward Iran lie in engaging Iran on issues of common interest, focusing communication on the office of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and presenting a united international approach to Iran's nuclear ambitions.

     
  • Testimony
    Saving the NPT and the Nonproliferation Regime in an Era of Nuclear Renaissance
    Pierre Goldschmidt July 24, 2008 Testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism

    A revival of nuclear energy worldwide appears to be looming, but it will not take place overnight and now is the time to ensure that future nuclear expansion is as safe and secure as possible, said Pierre Goldschmidt, in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.

     
  • Testimony
    Nuclear Power in a Warming World: Solution or Illusion?
    Sharon Squassoni March 12, 2008

    Nuclear energy cannot make a real difference to global climate change. To do so would require a tripling of capacity — building 25 reactors per year to 2050 — a rate of expansion that can't be met by the current infrastructure. As it is, nuclear energy, hampered by a moribund supply chain, will have to grow rapidly to maintain its current market share as demand for electricity doubles by 2030.

     
  • Testimony
    Iran: Reality, Opinions, and Consequences
    Karim Sadjadpour October 30, 2007 Testimony before the House Oversight Committee's National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee عربي

    The United States must alter its democracy promotion strategy, which has been unconstructive and counterproductive, and make clear that it has no intention of undermining Iran's territorial integrity. A move away from democracy promotion, however, should not signal indifference to human rights abuses.

     
  • Testimony
    Verifying Iran's Nuclear Program: Is the International Community Up To the Task?
    Pierre Goldschmidt October 30, 2007 Lamont Lecture at the Belfer Center

    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) faces a critical test this November when it will issue its latest report on Iran's nuclear activities. A condemning report by the IAEA could prompt Iran to end all cooperation with the IAEA. Yet a falsely reassuring report could damage the credibility of the nonproliferation regime.

     
  • Testimony
    Six Years Later: Assessing Long-Term Threats, Risks and the U.S. Strategy for Security in a Post-9/11 World
    Jessica Tuchman Mathews October 10, 2007 Testimony before the House Oversight Committee's National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee

    The Iraq war will be the turning point that changes the basic parameters of our security picture for decades. The war's monopoly on our political energy, which has now stretched to five years -- an eon in a time of fast-moving global change -- is one of its greatest uncounted costs.

     
  • Testimony
    International Perspectives on Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime
    Pierre Goldschmidt June 27, 2007 Testimony by Pierre Goldschmidt before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs

    There are three priorities for strengthening the nonproliferation regime and combating nuclear proliferation: ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, addressing cases of non-compliance, and dissuading withdrawal from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

     
  • Testimony
    International Perspectives on Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime
    George Perkovich June 27, 2007 Testimony by George Perkovich before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affars

    The international community must adopt and enforce three new, stronger nonproliferation rules: 1) Limit the spread of fissile material production capabilities; 2) States not in compliance with NPT obligations may not withdraw from the NPT without penalty; and 3) Agreement that states will provide nuclear cooperation to others only if the recipient is implementing the IAEA additional protocol.

     
  • Testimony
    Speech given at the First Annual Nuclear Fuel Cycle Monitor Global Nuclear Renaissance Summit
    Jessica Tuchman Mathews December 5, 2006 Global Nuclear Renaissance Summit

    Without a viable, effective nonproliferation regime, nuclear energy will neither be accepted publicly, nor would it be a wise choice.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Rich Lowry’s Misguided View of Lincoln
    George Perkovich June 14, 2013 Politico

    The big disputes between libertarian-conservatives and progressives revolve around whether justice can be reduced to individual liberty and property rights, and whether individual liberty and property rights should be privileged over correcting injustices.

     
  • Other Publications
    From an Ocean of Peace to a Sea of Friends
    Iskander Rehman June 13, 2013 Brookings Institution

    Although New Delhi has long recognized the importance of the Indian Ocean, it has only recently begun to display the underpinnings of a true maritime geostrategy.

     
  • Event
    Regional Perceptions of India’s Naval Rise
    Oriana Skylar Mastro, Iskander Rehman, George Perkovich, Nilanthi Samaranayake June 11, 2013 Washington, DC

    With the emergence of the Indo-Pacific as the epicenter of global maritime activity, the rise of the Indian Navy has drawn much attention.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Safeguards in the Spotlight
    Mark Hibbs June 9, 2013 Arms Control Wonk

    The IAEA has some outreach to do in a lot of states that are having difficulty meeting their safeguards obligations because they don’t understand them, don’t prioritize them, or don’t have enough resources.

     
  • Event
    The Fukushima Hangover: Analyzing Japan’s Nuclear Dilemma
    Charles Ferguson, Tomoko Kurokawa, James M. Acton June 3, 2013 Washington, DC

    The latter half of 2013 will be critical for Japan’s nuclear future.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Shallow Nations, Deep Waters
    Iskander Rehman May 31, 2013 Diplomat

    For relatively small coastal states such as Pakistan and Israel, the quest for maritime depth has given birth to naval nuclear force structures with the potential to undermine stability during a crisis.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Iran’s Nuclear Standoff
    Pierre Goldschmidt May 28, 2013 BBC

    There’s mounting concern over the Iranian nuclear program. Is Tehran simply playing cat and mouse with the international community and buying time until it is ready to develop a nuclear weapon?

     
  • Q&A
    Iran’s Nuclear Advance
    Mark Hibbs May 23, 2013

    The case for a limited Israeli or U.S. military intervention to take out Tehran’s nuclear capability seems to be losing credibility by the day.

     
  • Event
    The Nuclear Security Summit in 2014: Challenges and Opportunities
    Piet de Klerk, Togzhan Kassenova May 2, 2013 Washington, DC

    The Nuclear Security Summits in Washington in 2010 and Seoul in 2012 began the process of international engagement on the challenge of securing existing fissile material vulnerable to theft and diversion by non-state or terrorist groups.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Reconverting Iran's U3O8 to UF6
    Mark Hibbs April 27, 2013 Arms Control Wonk

    Iran could process its entire inventory of 20%-enriched U3O8 to produce UF6 in a matter of a few weeks, the fruit of Iran's cumulative nuclear chemistry R&D and industrial-scale experience over three decades.

     
  • Op-Ed
    Is China Changing Its Position on Nuclear Weapons?
    James M. Acton April 18, 2013 New York Times

    A recent Chinese white paper on defense omits a promise that China will never use nuclear weapons first, an explicit pledge had been the cornerstone of Beijing’s stated nuclear policy for the last half-century.

     
  • TV/Radio Broadcast
    Will North Korea Strike?
    James M. Acton April 16, 2013 CTV News

    North Korea has issued new threats against South Korea and has demanded an apology for protests in the South.

     

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Carnegie Experts on Nuclear Policy

  • James M. Acton
    Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Acton is a senior associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in nonproliferation, deterrence, and disarmament.

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  • Alexei Arbatov
    Scholar in Residence
    Nonproliferation Program
    Moscow Center

    Arbatov, a former member of the State Duma, is the author of a number of books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, and Russian military reform.

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  • Shahram Chubin
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Chubin, who is based in Geneva, focuses his research on nonproliferation, terrorism, and Middle East security issues. He was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009.

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  • Toby Dalton
    Deputy Director
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Dalton is the deputy director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his research focuses on cooperative nuclear security initiatives and the management of nuclear challenges in South Asia and East Asia.

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  • Pierre Goldschmidt
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Goldschmidt is a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment.

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  • Mark Hibbs
    Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Hibbs is a Berlin-based senior associate in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. Before joining Carnegie, for over twenty years he was an editor and correspondent for nuclear energy publications, including Nucleonics Week and NuclearFuel, published by the Platts division of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

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  • Togzhan Kassenova
    Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Kassenova is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow.

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  • Tomoko Kurokawa
    Nonresident Scholar
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Kurokawa is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program.

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  • Ariel (Eli) Levite
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.

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  • Li Bin
    Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program

    Li is a senior associate working jointly in the Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment.

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  • George Perkovich
    Vice President for Studies

    Perkovich’s research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a concentration on South Asia, Iran, and the problem of justice in the international political economy.

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  • Iskander Rehman
    Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Rehman is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. His research focuses on security and crisis stability in Asia, specifically the geopolitical ramifications of naval nuclearization in the Indian Ocean.

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  • Lora Saalman
    Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Saalman is a Beijing-based associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment whose research focuses on Chinese nuclear-weapon and nonproliferation policies and Sino-Indian strategic relations.

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  • Paul Schulte
    Nonresident Senior Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie Europe

    Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.

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  • Petr Topychkanov
    Associate
    Nonproliferation Program
    Moscow Center

    Topychkanov is an associate in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program.

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  • Sinan Ülgen
    Visiting Scholar
    Carnegie Europe

    Ülgen is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where his research focuses on the implications of Turkish foreign policy for Europe and the United States, particularly with regard to Turkey’s regional stance and its role in nuclear, energy, and climate issues.

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  • Nicholas Wright
    Associate
    Nuclear Policy Program

    Wright is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. His research draws on his background in neuroscience to explore political decisionmaking in economics and nuclear security.

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