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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
Threat of U.S.-China Land Grab in Space Demands Urgent Legal ReformsThe United States is in an arms race with China, similar to the one it had with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Space is being militarised as Beijing and Washington are ...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Nuclear Expert Jon Wolfsthal on the Costs of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Programs Spiraling out of Control
Just as the US House of Representatives passed its so-called “big, beautiful bill” last week, offering large tax cuts to the wealthy and kicking millions off their health insu...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Biden Pays Silent Tribute to Victims of Hiroshima Bomb
Mr. Biden’s visit came at a pivotal moment in the atomic age, with the “prospect of Armageddon,” as he has described it, greater than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisi...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Biden is going to Hiroshima at a moment when nuclear tensions are on the rise
Jon Wolfsthal, who worked on nuclear proliferation in the Obama Administration, helped plan that trip. A year later, he found himself talking to a local official during a visi...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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A Third Nuclear Age? What to Expect from US-South Korea Summit.
“For so long our primary preoccupation when it came to nuclear proliferation was with the rogue states, Iran and North Korea, but now we see it’s our friends who are contempla...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Something Is Missing From Americans’ Greatest Fears. It’s the Bomb.
Whether Americans are justified in no longer worrying so much about the bomb is another question. Jon Wolfsthal, a senior adviser to Global Zero, a group that advocates the ab...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal
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Putin’s Move on Nuclear Treaty May Signal End to Formal Arms Control
It was a reminder of how fragile the scant remaining restraints on nuclear weapons worldwide appear, 14 years after President Barack Obama, in a signature speech in Prague, ca...
By Jon B. Wolfsthal