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Jeffrey W. Knopf

Jeffrey W. Knopf is professor and program chair of nonproliferation and terrorism studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). He has published extensively on issues related to arms control, nonproliferation, and strategy. His most recent book is a volume he co-edited on Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons.


Articles by Jeffrey W. Knopf

US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris, Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement on transferring nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia and associated matters in Moscow, January 1994. Photo credit: Joseph P. Harahan, historian of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the Clinton Presidential Library.

Why the Ukraine war does not mean more countries should seek nuclear weapons

By Jeffrey W. Knopf | Nuclear Weapons