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SORT vs. New START: Why the Administration is Leery of a Treaty

March 15, 2013, Steven Pifer

Presidents, Nuclear Reductions and the Senate

March 14, 2013, Steven Pifer

Big Bets and Black Swans: Foreign Policy Challenges for President Obama’s Second Term

January 17, 2013

U.S.-Russia Relations in Obama's Second Term

January 9, 2013, Steven Pifer

The Foreign Policy Debate: Key Issues and Omissions

October 23, 2012, Justin Vaïsse, Feng Wang, Steven Pifer, Tanvi Madan and Diana Villiers Negroponte

In the next several years the U.S. has to make some very expensive decisions about how to modernize the legs of the U.S. strategic triad [bombers, submarine and land-based missiles]. For example, replacing the Trident submarine will cost, according to the Navy, $6 to $7 billion a piece.

October 22, 2012, Steven Pifer, NBC News

What the Candidates Should be Asked on Foreign Policy

October 19, 2012, Steven Pifer, Daniel L. Byman, Michael E. O'Hanlon, Bruce Riedel, Richard C. Bush III and Jonathan D. Pollack

Arms Control Should be High on President's Agenda

October 19, 2012, Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Command and Control over Nuclear Arms

October 19, 2012, Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Future of Nuclear Weapons Policy

October 8, 2012, Steven Pifer

Geopolitical Reality Makes U.S. Seek Russian Cooperation

September 24, 2012, Steven Pifer

Burying the Magnitsky Bill’s Message for Russia

June 29, 2012, Steven Pifer