WMD & Nuclear Proliferation
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) including the dangers of nuclear proliferation pose perhaps the gravest national security threat to the United States.
Author(s): Patrick Cronin
Source: The Daily Caller
Date: 02/15/2010
February 15, 2010 - Noting that the Iranian regime has been "playing for time" over the past year in fruitless nuclear talks with the United States and other parties, CNAS Senior Advisor Patrick Cronin calls on the White House to shift to a comprehensive containment strategy against Iran in a piece for The Daily Caller.
| more |Author(s): Abraham Denmark
Source: Foreign Policy Magazine
Date: 02/09/2010
February 9, 2010 - CNAS Fellow Abraham Denmark argues in Foreign Policy that while U.S. diplomatic ambitions may have shrunk since the end of the Cold War, the United States is still achieving much success around the world and responding to a more complex, multipolar environment through a detailed diplomatic approach.
| more |Author(s): Eleanor Hall
Source: Australia's ABC News
Date: 02/02/2010
February 2, 2010 - CNAS Research Associate Travis Sharp discusses shifting priorities in the Pentagon's new Quadrennial Defense Review in an interview with Australia's ABC News, citing the creation of a new U.S Cyber Command and increased Defense Department efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism.
| more |Author(s): Senate Armed Services Committee
Source: Senate Armed Services Committee Press Release
Date: 01/25/2010
January 25, 2010 - CNAS President John Nagl was named to the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Independent Panel by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin. “Charles Curtis and John Nagl offer a wide range and depth of defense policy and practical experience both in and out of government,” Levin said.
| more |Author(s): Robert Kaplan
Source: The Atlantic
Date: 01/16/2010
January 16, 2010 – CNAS Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan makes the case in The Atlantic for “far-reaching” talks with Iran that promote universal democratic values while neither giving legitimacy to the current regime nor overtly supporting the Green Revolution’s demonstrators.
| more |Author(s): Isaac Stone Fish, Abe Denmark
Source: Newsweek
Date: 01/15/2010
January 14, 2010 - CNAS Fellow Abe Denmark offers analysis in Newsweek on China's history of supporting rogue states, most notably Iran and North Korea.
| more |Author(s): Josh Rogin, Travis Sharp
Source: Foreign Policy - The Cable
Date: 01/13/2010
January 13, 2010 - CNAS Research Associate Travis Sharp is interviewed in Foreign Policy's The Cable about delays in renewing the START Treaty.
| more |Author(s): Matthew Mosk
Source: The Washington Times
Date: 12/15/2009
December 15, 2009 - CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine considers the imposition of sanctions against Iran should nuclear negotiations fail in The Washington Times.
| more |Author(s): Richard Fontaine, Daniel Twining
Source: World Politics Review
Date: 11/26/2009
November 26, 2009 - CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine argues that the Obama administration needs to make clear to India that they consider the country a first-order international player.
| more |Author(s): Richard Fontaine
Source: The Wall Street Journal Asia
Date: 10/25/2009
October 25, 2009 - CNAS Senior Fellow Richard Fontaine argues for increased economic ties between the United States and Taiwan in Wall Street Journal Asia. "The U.S. should embrace the lesson that has been clearly internalized by so many powers across the Pacific Rim: Moving forward with robust attempts to free trade leads to economic and strategic strength, not weakness."
| more |Author(s): Abraham M. Denmark, Dr. James Mulvenon
Type of Publication: Report
Date: 01/25/2010
The Contested Commons capstone report, authored by CNAS Fellow Abraham M. Denmark and Dr. James Mulvenon, provides an overview of the future of American power in a multipolar world. The authors advocate that the United States renew its commitment to the global commons by pursuing three mutually supporting objectives: build global regimes that preserve the openness of the commons; engage pivotal actors that have the will and ability to protect and sustain them; and develop the hard-power tools and capabilities necessary for the United States to defend the global commons.
| more |Author(s): Abraham M. Denmark, Richard Fontaine
Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Date: 12/10/2009
President Obama’s recent visit to Beijing highlighted several issues of mutual interest and concern for the U.S.-China relationship, yet the fact that Taiwan was not a major issue of contention highlights the rapidly changing dynamics of the cross-Strait relationship.
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Author(s): Abraham Denmark, Zachary M. Hosford, Michael Zubrow
Type of Publication: Report
Date: 11/09/2009
This report, authored by CNAS Fellow Abraham Denmark and Research Assistants Zachary Hosford and Michael Zubrow, summarizes obstacles faced in past negotiations with North Korea and recommends new strategies and tactics for addressing them to help negotiators forge a credible path toward denuclearization.
| more |Author(s): Abraham Denmark, Nirav Patel, Linton Brooks, Joshua W. Busby, Lindsey Ford, Michael J. Green, G. John Ikenberry, Robert D. Kaplan, Daniel Twining, Richard Weitz
Type of Publication: Report
Date: 09/22/2009
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2009 - China’s rise is one of the most significant geopolitical events in modern history, with important ramifications for U.S. interests, regional power balances, and the international order. As the Obama administration confronts a broad set of worldwide challenges, questions remain as to how the United States should engage China amidst uncertainty about its long-term intentions and how to balance this important relationship against concerns regarding China’s behavior in the international community.
| more |Author(s): Abraham M. Denmark, Nirav Patel, Lindsey Ford, Michael Zubrow, Zachary M. Hosford
Type of Publication: Working Papers
Date: 06/11/2009
Pyongyang has spoken: North Korea has chosen the path of confrontation. Despite a series of agreements orchestrated by the Clinton and Bush administrations, North Korea has made no progress toward engagement and denuclearization, and has abdicated its commitments to the international community.
| more |Author(s): Lindsey Ford, Zachary Hosford, Michael Zubrow
Type of Publication: Working Papers
Date: 04/25/2009
North Korea’s nuclear program is one of the longest-standing and most difficult proliferation challenges the United States faces today. In many ways, the regime and its nuclear program stand as relics of the Cold War, seemingly at odds with the rapid development of the rest of the Asia-Pacific.
| more |Author(s): Lindsey Ford, Zachary Hosford, Michael Zubrow
Type of Publication: Factsheet
Date: 04/07/2009
This timeline provides a short overview of the major developments in U.S.-DPRK negotiations in the last 20 years.
| more |Author(s): James N. Miller, Christine Parthemore, Kurt M. Campbell
Type of Publication: Policy Brief
Date: 09/13/2008
The next American president must come to office with an Iran plan ready to implement on Day One of his administration. That plan should center on conducting game-changing diplomacy with Iran.
| more |Author(s): James N. Miller, Christine Parthemore, Kurt M. Campbell, Dennis Ross, Suzanne Maloney, Ashton B. Carter, Vali Nasr, Richard N. Haass
Type of Publication: Report
Date: 09/12/2008
Dealing with Iran and its nuclear program will be an urgent priority for the next president. In order to evaluate U.S. policy options, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) convened a bipartisan group of experts on foreign policy and national security, retired military personnel, former diplomats and other government officials, and specialists on Iran and the region. Ambassador Dennis Ross presented a paper on diplomatic strategies for dealing with Iran, and Dr. Suzanne Maloney wrote on potential Iranian responses. Dr. Ashton Carter evaluated various U.S. military options, and Dr. Vali Nasr described likely Iranian reactions and other potential impacts. Ambassador Richard Haass considered the challenges of living with a nuclear Iran. Each of these papers represents an important contribution to a much-needed national discussion on U.S. policy toward Iran. Based on these papers and expert group discussion, as well as additional research and analysis, three CNAS authors (Dr. James Miller, Christine Parthemore, and Dr. Kurt Campbell) proposed that the next administration pursue “game-changing diplomacy” with Iran. While both Iran and the international community would be better off if Iran plays ball, game-changing diplomacy is designed to improve prospects for the United States and the international community irrespective of how Iran responds.
| more |Type: Video
Date: 07/15/2009
Center for a New American Security (CNAS) President John Nagl discusses the tradition and importance of the CNAS annual conference, which this year featured renowned national security experts and attracted over 1200 people in person and over 3500 people around the world who watched the conference live on the CNAS website.
| more |Speaker(s): Admiral Gary Roughead, Norman R. Augustine, Abraham Denmark
Type: Transcript
Date: 02/08/2010
Download the transcript from the January 26 event on the contested commons - sea, air, space, and cyberspace - including remarks from: Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead; Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force General Carrol Chandler; renowned aerospace expert Norman R. Augustine; Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis Director at Defense Group Inc. Dr. James Mulvenon; and CNAS Fellow Abraham Denmark.
| more |Type: Transcript
Date: 01/12/2010
On January 12, CNAS launched the U.S.-India Initiative at an event in New Delhi co-hosted by the Aspen Institute India. The event featured Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and a distinguished group of American and Indian experts. Read the Foreign Secretary's remarks here.
| more |Speaker(s): Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, Dennis C. Wilder, Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard
Type: Audio
Date: 06/11/2009
The full audio of the panel "No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea" from the June 11, 2009, conference is available here.
| more |Speaker(s): Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, Dennis C. Wilder, Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard
Type: Transcript
Date: 06/11/2009
The full transcript of the panel "No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea" from the June 11, 2009, conference is available here.
| more |Speaker(s): Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, Dennis C. Wilder, Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard
Type: Video
Date: 06/11/2009
The full video of the panel "No Illusions: Regaining the Strategic Initiative with North Korea" from the June 11, 2009, conference is available here.
| more |Speaker(s): Honorable Dr. Richard J. Danzig
Type: Video
Date: 06/11/2009
CNAS Chairman of the Board The Honorable Dr. Richard Danzig delivered the welcoming remarks at the CNAS third annual conference "Striking a Balance: A New American Security."
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Speaker(s): Dr. Suzanne Maloney, Ambassador Dennis Ross
Type: Video
Date: 06/11/2008
Dealing with Iran and its nuclear program will be an urgent priority for the next president. In order to evaluate U.S. policy options, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) convened a bipartisan group of experts on foreign policy and national security, retired military personnel, former diplomats and other government officials, and specialists on Iran and the region.
| more |Senior Advisor and Korea Chair
Victor Cha was named to the newly created Korea Chair at CSIS in May 2009. Previously, he served as director for Asian studies at Georgetown University. From 2004 to 2007, he was director for Asian affairs at the White House, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Island nations. He also served as U.S. deputy head of delegation to the Six-Party Talks and has acted as a senior consultant on East Asian security issues for different branches of the U.S. government.
| more |Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program
Patrick Cronin is a Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Previously, he was the Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at National Defense University and has had a 25-year career inside government and academic research centers, spanning defense affairs, foreign policy, and development assistance.
Chairman of the Board
Richard Danzig is the Chairman of the Center for a New American Security's Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board and a Director of The RAND Corporation and The Partnership for Public Service. In recent years other pro bono activities have included service as The Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and as a member of the Board of Public Agenda.
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Robert B. Killebrew is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Killebrew is a retired Army colonel who served 30 years in a variety of assignments that included Special Forces, tours in the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, XVIII Airborne Corps, high-level war planning assignments and instructor duty at the Army War College.
Vice President and Director of Studies
Kristin Lord is Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security. Prior to joining CNAS, Dr. Lord was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution. At Brookings, Dr. Lord directed the science and technology initiative of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World.
| more |Research Associate
Travis Sharp is a Research Associate at the Center for a New American Security. Prior to joining CNAS, he served as Military Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, where he started as a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow. Sharp’s articles have appeared in Joint Force Quarterly, Parameters, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ForeignPolicy.com, Defense News, Politico, and The Korea Times.
| more |Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Center for a New American Security and Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute. His current areas of research include defense reform, WMD nonproliferation, homeland security, and U.S. policies towards Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia. Dr. Weitz currently serves as head of the Case Studies Working Group of the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR).
| more |Speaker(s): Greg Jaffe, David Cloud
Date: October 13, 2009 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Willard InterContinental Hotel's Grand Ballroom - Washington, DC
The Center for a New American Security held a book launch and discussion on The Fourth Star, by journalists and former CNAS Writers in Residence Greg Jaffe and David Cloud. The Fourth Star tells the story of the epic struggle for the future of the U.S. Army through profiling four influential generals who have arguably helped redefine the American way of war: Generals John Abizaid, George Casey Jr., Peter Chiarelli, and David Petraeus. Watch the video from the event here.
| more |Speaker(s): The Honorable Judith McHale, Honorable Dr. Richard J. Danzig, GEN Jack Keane, Sharon Burke, Dr. John A. Nagl, Thomas E. Ricks, Nathaniel C. Fick, Dr. Kurt M. Campbell, Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, General David H. Petraeus, George Packer, Professor Andrew J. Bacevich, Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, Lt. General David W. Barno, Roderick G. Eggert, Peter H. Gleick, Dennis C. Wilder, Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie, The Honorable John Warner, Dr. Victor Cha, Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli, Commander Esther J. McClure, Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard, Nazar Janabi
Date: June 11, 2009 - 7:45am - 7:00pm
Location: Willard InterContinental Hotel - Washington, DC
Striking a Balance: A New American Security was an all-day CNAS conference highlighting the major foreign policy and national security challenges facing our nation in the critical time ahead.
| more |Speaker(s): David E. Sanger, Michael Beschloss
Date: January 15, 2009 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Willard Intercontinental Hotel - Washington, DC
January 15, 2009--The Center for a New American Security was pleased to host a book launch of The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, by David E. Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent of The New York Times.
| more |Date: December 10, 2008 - 6:00pm - December 11, 2008 - 4:00pm
Location: St. Regis Hotel - Washington, DC
On December 10th and 11th 2008, the Center for A New American Security and the Nuclear Threat Initiative co-hosted a dinner and conference for Project Base Camp: Assessing Alternative Paths to the Nuclear-Free Mountaintop.
| more |Speaker(s): Robert Kaplan
Date: December 9, 2008 - 12:00pm
Location: CNAS Conference Room - Washington, DC
On December 9th 2008, Senior Fellow Robert Kaplan discussed his most recent assignment in India.
| more |Speaker(s): Nathaniel C. Fick, Vikram Singh
Date: September 18, 2008 (All day)
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a press briefing on Thursday, September 18, 2008 with Fellows Nathaniel Fick and Vikram Singh on their recent trip to Afghanistan where they visited Kabul, Kandahar, Ghazni, Panjshir, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Parwan, and Paktika provinces.
| more |Speaker(s): Honorable Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, Honorable Richard L. Armitage, Honorable Carol M. Browner, Honorable Dr. Richard J. Danzig, LTG Karl Eikenberry, Honorable Lindsey O. Graham, Dr. John G. Ikenberry, GEN Jack Keane, William Kristol, Dr. Suzanne Maloney, John Melia, Lt Gen Greg S. Newbold, Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Honorable Dr. William J. Perry, John Podesta, Dr. Mitchell B. Reiss, Ambassador Dennis Ross, David E. Sanger, GEN Charles F. Wald, Sharon Burke, Michèle A. Flournoy, Dr. Colin Kahl, Dr. Kurt M. Campbell, Dr. Michael Green, Robert Kaplan
Date: June 11, 2008 (All day)
Location: The Willard Intercontinental - Washington, DC
Pivot Point: New Directions for American Security was a one-day CNAS conference highlighting the major foreign policy and national security challenges facing our nation in the critical time ahead.
| more |Speaker(s): Michèle A. Flournoy
Date: October 19, 2007 (All day)
This event took place on Friday, October 19, 2007 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, DC to discuss the new report, “Reducing Nuclear Threats and Preventing Nuclear Terrorism.” The report was completed by the National Security Advisory Group, directed by Wendy R. Sherman, Principal, The Albright Group LLC and Robert J. Einhorn, Senior Advisor, International Security Programs, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
| more |Speaker(s): Senator Jack Reed, Honorable Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, Honorable Dr. Richard J. Danzig, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Senator Chuck Hagel
Date: June 27, 2007 (All day)
Location: Willard Intercontinental - Washington, DC
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held its official launch on June 27, 2007 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. The day-long event, entitled “Toward a New American Security,” included three expert panels based on recently released CNAS reports as well as keynote addresses by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Discussions and debates covered the future of U.S. ground forces, a new strategy for the war in Iraq, and the nature of the national security inheritance the next president will receive from the current administration. With more than five hundred guests and distinguished bipartisan panels, the event helped pave the way for the center’s ongoing work in creating strong, pragmatic, and principled defense and security policies for America.
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