Desperate Times, Half Measures
Essay TypesEssayGeoffrey KempThe Bush Administration and its European allies will soon have to make some tough decisions on what to do about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iran's extensive program to...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
Essay TypesEssayBrent ScowcroftARE WE pursuing the right strategy to ensure that Iran (or, for that matter, any other aspirant nuclear power) does not cross the threshold to join the ranks of nuclear...
View ArticleIn Brief: Thoughts on National Security
Essay TypesEssayGraham AllisonIan BremmerHarlan UllmanDerek CholletNuclear Terrorism Report CardIn the first debate of the 2004 presidential campaign, the moderator asked the two candidates: "What is...
View ArticleChurchill, Not Quite
Essay TypesThe RealistGraham AllisonDimitri K. SimesPRESIDENT BUSH has identified the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons as "the single largest threat to American national security." Indeed, he has...
View ArticleAmerica's Gas Feeding Frenzy
America’s energy feeding frenzy has been mortgaging the planet’s future for decades and now it faces its moment of truth.Roman KupchinskySummer equals driving season in the United States, but the...
View ArticleBreaking More Naan with Delhi
Essay TypesEssayKarl F. InderfurthBruce RiedelFIVE CENTURIES ago the lure of doing business in India was so strong that a generation of bold and adventurous Portuguese navigators and sailors changed...
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The Road to Recovery
Essay TypesThe RealistPaul J. SaundersTHE U.S. predicament in Iraq and other foreign-policy troubles have prompted a new realism from the Bush Administration. From an increasingly pragmatic approach to...
View ArticleGoing Nuclear on Energy
It’s en vogue to say that the magnitude of America’s energy problem makes it insurmountable. But one solution would go a long way toward shoring up our economic, as well as strategic, position: nuclear...
View ArticleImproving the "Pickens Plan"
Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens has launched a massive public-relations blitz to promote his wind-turbine plan. The Democrats seem to like it, but there’s a better way to achieve energy...
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Russia Goes Ballistic
Essay TypesEssayBradley A. ThayerThomas M. SkypekOVER THE next ten to twenty years, the erosion of American nuclear superiority will have major ramifications for the global balance of power. It will...
View ArticleOr: How I Learned to Stop Worrying
From the November/December issue of The National Interest.John Mueller, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 336 pp., $27.95. [amazon...
View ArticleNuclear Lemonade
Obama is right to encourage the use of nuclear energy. Let’s hope he’s actually serious about it—and not just trying to score political points with union workers.Paul J. SaundersPresident Barack...
View ArticleNuclear Rangoon
If we want to stop Burma’s atomic ambitions, we should engage the regime and encourage political liberalization.Doug BandowFor years the West has treated Burma as primarily a humanitarian crisis. Now...
View ArticleThe Atomic Supermarket
Is an international nuclear-storage facility in Kazakhstan the solution to the world’s nuclear-proliferation problem?Richard WeitzIs Kazakhstan the answer to the world's nuclear-proliferation problems?...
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The Bearer of Bad News on Iran
The latest IAEA report on Iran contains a mountain of bad news. Does the Obama administration have a plan for The Day After?David KayThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Monday issued its...
View ArticleResponse to Heather Wilson's 'Missed Opportunities'
Essay TypesEssayEliot A. CohenHeather Wilson's article will, no doubt, win her few friends among her former colleagues in the Bush administration or among their successors. In fact, in the...
View ArticleIran and Brazil: Dangerous Precedents
It is a country long known for wanting the bomb.Cole BucyIt is a country long known for wanting the bomb. It's most recent elections deeply frustrated Washington and threaten a collision with the...
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Study: U.S. "Losing Ground" To Russia And China On Nuclear Power
Russia plans to complete one new large reactor per year, on average, until at least 2028.Andrew FollettThe U.S. is losing global influence to Russia and China by allowing its nuclear power industry to...
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