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Henry Sokolski

Henry Sokolski is the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Arlington, Virginia, and author of China, Russia and the Coming Cool War (2024). He served as deputy for nonproliferation policy in the office of the US secretary of defense during the George H.W. Bush administration.

Articles by Henry Sokolski

Nuclear reactor on a truck

Small military nuclear reactors: In need of global safeguards

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy

Participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Countries in red or orange are non-members.

The NPT turns 50: Will it get to 60?

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Weapons

Participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Countries in red or orange are non-members.

The NPT turns 50: Will it get to 60?

By Henry Sokolski, John Lauder

US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a joint news conference at the White House this week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Taking Erdogan’s critique of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty seriously

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Energy Secretary Rick Perry during a 2017 visit to Idaho National Laboratory.

Why Congress should say no to yet another fast reactor dream

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Credit: Matt Field. Based in part on photo by vergreen CC BY-SA 3.0.

The rise and demise of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor

By Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

If yes to Saudi Arabia, no to whom?

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear power’s weapons link: Cause to limit, not boost exports

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The Rokkasho reprocessing facility.

Make US-Japanese nuclear cooperation stable again: End reprocessing

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Facing reality in the US-Saudi nuclear agreement: South Korea

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Opinion

No to a permissive US-Saudi nuclear deal

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Nuclear cooling tower

Exporting power reactors: No way to fight proliferation

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons