Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series on Israel, Iran’s nuclear program, and the U.S. Parts One and Two examined six use-of-force crises where Israel and the U.S. were at odds. In all but one case, things…
Married life and foreign relations aren’t entirely unrelated — both depend on good communication. That was the conclusion Russia and the United States came to in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the two powers came incredibly close…
This weekend saw the nationwide debut of possibly the most-anticipated film of the past decade, director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a cinematic biography of the man considered the father of the atomic bomb. Like many of Nolan’s films, Oppenheimer is a…
South Korea is in the midst of a defining moment in its 75-year history. As President Yoon Suk-yeol pointed out in early January, North Korea’s increasing nuclear stockpile is a threat to South Korea’s national sovereignty. If Pyongyang continues this…
Taiwan sits barely 100 miles off China’s coast and is increasingly vulnerable to attack by Beijing. America’s ambiguous, uncertain promise to defend the island will become increasingly difficult to back with military force. Imagine China attempting to defend Cuba from…
America’s extended nuclear deterrent has always rested on credibility. Credibility is one of those intangible factors in international relations that can mean the difference between peace and war and victory or defeat. Credibility is sort of like obscenity — it…
In an important article in the current Washington Quarterly, Evan Braden Montgomery and Toshi Yoshihara of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) explore the foreign policy implications of what they describe as China’s “significant quantitative and qualitative nuclear…
There is a lot to be said about the way President Joe Biden runs our military affairs and foreign policy, none of it good. A big part of the problem is how he is failing to maintain our deterrence of…
According to Bill Gertz of the Washington Times, the outgoing head of the U.S. Strategic Command has notified Congress that China has surpassed the United States in a key area of nuclear weapons competition. The notification, writes Gertz, who is…
