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May 24, 2018

With Summit Off, United States Needs to Think Through its North Korea Strategy

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump’s administration must use the opportunity presented by the president’s decision to scrap his June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to think through its strategy on North Korea, according to the Atlantic Council’s Robert A. Manning. “There are technical issues that we ought to explore so we know […]

Korea Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

May 24, 2018

Trump Calls off Date with Kim Jong-un

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump on May 24 abruptly called off a June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The highly anticipated summit—one frequently touted by Trump himself—was to be held in Singapore. “I was very much looking forward to being there with you. Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility […]

Korea Nuclear Nonproliferation

New Atlanticist

May 23, 2018

Trump’s Plan B for Iran

By Matthew Kroenig

Several years ago, Henry Kissinger famously stated that Iran must decide if it wants to be a country or a cause. On May 21, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo re-articulated this question, offering Iran a sharp choice: to be welcomed back into the community of nations if it abandons its destabilizing security policies or […]

Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

In the News

May 22, 2018

Ichord Quoted in US News & World Report on a New Design for a ‘Small Modular Reactor’

By Robert Ichord

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Nuclear Nonproliferation Security & Defense

In the News

May 11, 2018

Slavin Joins the Nukes of Hazard Podcast to Discuss Trump’s Withdrawal from the JCPOA

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

MENASource

May 11, 2018

Killing the JCPOA: Opportunity missed?

By Frederic C. Hof

As reported previously by this writer, senior Iranian former officials repeatedly told him and other Americans in unofficial, track II discussions preceding the nuclear deal, that Iran had no intention of weaponizing nuclear energy. The reason offered had nothing to do with Koranic proscriptions. To paraphrase one of the Iranian ex-officials, “Look at all we […]

Crisis Management Iran

In the News

May 8, 2018

Slavin in Axios: Trump Blows up Iran Nuclear Deal with Nothing to Replace it

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

In the News

May 8, 2018

Brandenburg Quoted in Radio Free Europe on US Withdrawal from the Iran Deal

By Robert A. Manning

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Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

In the News

May 8, 2018

Slavin Quoted in The Atlantic on the Iran Nuclear Deal

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

In the News

May 7, 2018

Slavin Joins BBC to Discuss Trump’s JCPOA Decision

By Barbara Slavin

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Iran Nuclear Nonproliferation

Experts