Nuclear Strategy
After Hwasong-20, Washington Needs a New North Korea Strategy
In October 2025, North Korea unveiled what its state media called its "most powerful nuclear strategic weapon," the Hwasong-20, a solid-fueled, road-mobile intercontinental ballistic...
Xi’s North Korea Visit Fuels Kim’s Push for Trump Talks After Iran War
Chinese President Xi Jinping's historic two-day visit to North Korea (June 8-9, 2026) is linked to the ongoing conflict in their ally Iran and...
Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: Problems of Credibility
“Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.” -Herman Kahn, Thinking About...
Iran War Peace Talks and Hormuz Reopening: Key Points Included in Negotiations
The U. S. and Iran are currently working on a temporary agreement to halt the war, focusing on a limited deal rather than a...
Drifting Toward Chaos: Donald Trump, Iran and Nuclear War
“The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existence (1935)
It’s no...
How Europe and Canada Can Learn to Love the Bomb and Still Make the World Safer for Everyone
Authors: Raymond Floreani and Dr.Julian Spencer-Churchill
Donald Trump's administration has again made it plain to Europe and NATO that America is no longer willing to...
Well-Reasoned Scenarios: Israel, Iran and Nuclear War
“Then fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”-Archilochus
At first glance, the June 2025 military operation against Iran carried no risks...
50 Years of Nuclear Restraint Ends Tomorrow
Tomorrow, February 5, 2026, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia expires. There will be no dramatic denouncement,...
85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT: What Global Risks are pushing Humanity to the Brink?
Midnight representing a global catastrophe, one brought on by human decisions rather than just nature or fate. An imagined moment of civilization`s dimise is...
Doomsday Clock moves closest ever to midnight, scientists warn of unprecedented peril
Atomic scientists have set their "Doomsday Clock" at 85 seconds before midnight, reflecting increased risks of global disaster due to aggressive actions by nuclear...