nuclear weapons
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Critical Steps in Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review
By Christine Parthemore President Biden’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will be released soon. When it is, it will make several policy changes that should greatly benefit U.S. security and international leadership. One is that the NPR will reportedly declare that the fundamental purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear attacks. I and several colleagues…
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CSR Receives Major Grant to Address the Rising Risks of Nuclear Conflict
Part of the impetus to launch the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) was our concern that catastrophic risks were rising. The global security environment is experiencing monumental strains, including from the weakening of long-held norms, clear violations of the rules-based international order as exemplified by Russia’s most recent invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, mounting strains…
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BRIEFER: The Benefits of Further Declarations of Restraint from the Use of Nuclear Weapons
By Rear Admiral John Gower, CB OBE An important component of reducing risk among nuclear-armed states is greater understanding of others’ policies, plans, and intentions regarding their arsenals. Such understanding serves to reduce significantly the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation that could precipitate the use of nuclear weapons. While the greatest contributions to mutual reassurance…
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Toward a Modernized Nuclear Triad: Dangerously Expensive or Vital to Deterrence?
By Natasha Bajema In a stunning series of revelations, researchers at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and the Federation of American Scientists used commercial satellite imagery to disclose China’s efforts to build at least 200 new nuclear silos in the desert near the cities of Yumen and Hami. Once completed, this expansion could…
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The Biden-Putin Summit: Pivoting in the Right Nuclear Direction
By Christine Parthemore The first in-person summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded in Geneva Wednesday. While major breakthroughs were not expected, the meeting seems to have been relatively positive—and it may mark a pivot in a better direction regarding nuclear weapons threats in particular. Among other common ground set,…
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On the Verge – New Weapons of Mass Destruction? (007)
https://media.blubrry.com/csr_on_the_verge/content.blubrry.com/csr_on_the_verge/On_the_Verge-CWMD_2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 34:21 — 24.0MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS | MoreIn this episode, Dr. Natasha Bajema, Director of the Converging Risks Lab, hosts a follow-on discussion with Colonel (ret) Ron Fizer and the Honorable Andy Weber about the definition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and whether or not other technologies and…
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BRIEFER: A Practical Strategy for Nuclear Risk Reduction and Disarmament
By Christine Parthemore and Rear Admiral John Gower, CB OBE In remarks at the White House the afternoon of April 15th, U.S. President Joe Biden spoke of a recent call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, voicing hope that the nations should seek to find common interests on which to cooperate. This comes despite Russian attacks…
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On the Verge – Rebooting the National Strategy to Combat WMD (006)
https://media.blubrry.com/csr_on_the_verge/content.blubrry.com/csr_on_the_verge/On_the_Verge-CWMD_Strategy_006.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 29:27 — 20.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS | MoreIn this episode, Dr. Natasha Bajema, Director of the Converging Risks Lab, hosts Colonel (ret) Ron Fizer and the Honorable Andy Weber in a discussion about the need to reboot the 2002 strategy to combat Weapons of…
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Remembering Janne Nolan on International Women’s Day
By Christine Parthemore Not a day goes by that I and many of us at the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) don’t think about Dr. Janne Nolan, our founding Board member and friend who passed away far too soon in 2019. In the run up to this International Women’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot…
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On the Verge – Sole Purpose Nuclear Doctrine (004)
https://media.blubrry.com/csr_on_the_verge/content.blubrry.com/csr_on_the_verge/On_the_Verge-Episode_004.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 28:34 — 26.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS | MoreIn this episode, Natasha Bajema, Director of the Converging Risks Lab at the Council on Strategic Risks, interviews Andy Weber and John Gower about their proposal for a sole purpose nuclear doctrine. The Honorable Andy Weber is…