Introduction: The great missile defense dilemma
Driven by varying (mis)perceptions of the motives and technological capabilities of their ...
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July 2018
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Limitations on ballistic missile defense—past and possibly future
The ABM Treaty is unlikely to be revived any time soon. But ...
A new boost-phase missile defense system—and its diplomatic uses in the North Korea dispute
The defense system the authors sketch in this article – the Airborne ...
US Ground-based midcourse missile defense: Expensive and unreliable
The Trump administration is seeking a significant expansion in the Ground-based Midcourse ...
The vicissitudes of Russian missile defense
The Russian vision of ballistic missile defense has reflected the specifics of ...
Why a space-based missile interceptor system is not viable
The United States has plans to develop two new missile defense programs ...
China’s attitudes toward missile defense and its limitation
If there were to be a new international agreement to limit certain ...
Deterrence and its discontents
What might Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, have found, had he ...
Myths of automation and their implications for military procurement
Several mythical beliefs surround military automation, including the belief that automation reduces ...
Waste makes haste: How a campaign to speed up nuclear waste shipments shut down the WIPP long-term repository
What happened, in the years leading up to Valentine’s Day 2014, that ...
The making of a non-proliferation law: A memoir
In this article, the author describes the legislative process by which the ...
Garlin Gilchrist: Fighting fake news and the information apocalypse
In this interview, Garlin Gilchrist II, executive director of the University of ...
Chinese nuclear forces, 2018
Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does China have? China is continuing ...
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