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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Kim Jong-un’s long game

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Launch of a missile defense interceptor from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.

US Ground-based midcourse missile defense: Expensive and unreliable

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Sigmund Freud

Deterrence and its discontents

By Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

United States nuclear forces, 2018

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

Eliminating ICBMs—as part of a 21st-century deterrence strategy

By Brent J. Talbot | Uncategorized

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A history of US nuclear weapons in South Korea

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook

Noam Chomsky: In the Trump era, severe threats to “organized human life”

By Lucien Crowder | Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons

The Trump’s administration’s misaligned approach to national biodefense

By Reid Kirby | Biosecurity

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Hybrid war: Russian contemporary political warfare

By Christopher S. Chivvis | Special Topics, Technology and Security

How Iran’s hybrid-war tactics help and hurt it

By Melissa G. Dalton | Special Topics, Technology and Security

Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2017

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook

US cities are not medically prepared for a nuclear detonation

By Jerome M. Hauer | Nuclear Weapons