A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

Before jumping on the proliferation bandwagon, policymakers in Washington and Seoul should consider five critical questions that are being ignored today. The answers to these questions suggest that the imagined benefits of friendly proliferation do not clearly outweigh the risks.

America’s potential strategic disengagement from Europe is leading key European powers to reconsider the role of nuclear weapons in European security in the absence of extended U.S. nuclear deterrence. 

A discussion on what climate change means for nuclear policy.

U.S. sanctions over Iran’s missile deal with Russia are unlikely to derail President Masoud Pezeshkian’s efforts to bring his country out of isolation, diplomats say.

Nonetheless, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has compelled governments in the US and Europe to decide in some cases whether to permit significant lucrative transactions, contracted for by Western nuclear firms with Russian industry before the war began, to be completed.