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Edward M. Ifft

Edward M. Ifft is a retired member of the Senior Executive Service. His career was primarily as an official in the State Department, where he worked principally on nuclear arms control. He is now a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.


Articles by Edward M. Ifft

Ending the war in Ukraine: practical, if painful, possibilities

By Edward M. Ifft | Analysis, Nuclear Risk
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addressing The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, Sept. 26th, 2019. Credit: Bones Donovan accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Legal and political myths of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

By David A. Koplow, Edward M. Ifft | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons