The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) now warns that Iran has enough nuclear material to make several atomic bombs. Iran is the only non-nuclear weapon state to enrich uranium to near full weapons-grade levels, and it continues to deny inspectors…
The world right now is a tinderbox. In the Middle East, Hamas is putting up a fight against the mighty Israel Defense Forces that few would have expected just four months ago. Despite total dominance in the air and in…
Beijing has spent the last several decades pressuring and threatening Taiwan, the island roughly 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, so no one was surprised when, during his New Year’s address, Chinese President Xi Jinping asserted that Taiwan’s…
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of a four-part series on Israel, Iran’s nuclear program, and the U.S. Part Three addressed Iran’s nuclear quest and failed efforts to stop its program. Part Four turns to how vulnerable Israel is to…
Last week’s Republican presidential debate means that however much one might wish otherwise, the 2024 presidential election campaign has officially arrived. We’re told that the 2024 election may be the most consequential since, well, whenever — pundits, after all, always…
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…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. There is a new arms race in the Indo-Pacific, including a nuclear arms race, and American academics — including Matthew Bunn of Harvard’s Kennedy School — call upon the United…
For a year I’ve been expressing my fear of a desperate Vladimir Putin ultimately resorting to a nuclear option of some sort in Ukraine. The Russians always get their tails kicked in military conflicts, and the fact that they’ve been…