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Getting it Wrong on North Korea and Nuclear Reductions

February 15, 2013, Steven Pifer and Jonathan D. Pollack

The Next Step on Nuclear Arms Reduction

February 14, 2013, Steven Pifer

Beyond the State of the Union, A Plan for Nuclear Arms Control

February 13, 2013, Steven Pifer

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Obama’s Aims to Reduce Nuclear Threat

February 12, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Steven Pifer

Possible Scope and Conditions for Information-Sharing and Confidence-Building Measures Regarding Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe

February 7, 2013, Steven Pifer

Senator Hagel and Nuclear Weapons

January 30, 2013, Steven Pifer

Nuclear Arms Control: Another New START

January 17, 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

NATO-Russia Missile Defense: Compromise is Possible

December 2012, Steven Pifer

Nuclear Arms Control Opportunities: An Agenda for Obama’s Second Term

December 2012, Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon

The Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces: History and Lessons Learned

December 2012, Steven Pifer, Avis T. Bohlen, William F. Burns and John Woodworth

I assume the president [Obama] has a more ambitious arms control agenda for his second term.…If he wants another treaty as part of his legacy, it has to be done in time for a ratification debate in 2015, not in the 2016 election year.

December 3, 2012, Steven Pifer, Los Angeles Times

Obama, Putin, Arms Control and U.S.-Russia Relations (Новый этап в отношениях Вашингтона и Москвы)

December 3, 2012, Steven Pifer

The West Now Views Ukraine as a Country that has Gone Off the Democratic Track

November 24, 2012, Steven Pifer

Are The Russians Ready To Reengage?

November 19, 2012, 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

Disarming the World

October 18, 2012, Steven Pifer

The U.S. Should Make Annual Declarations to Russia of Its Missile Defense Plans

October 2012, Steven Pifer

The Opportunity

Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms

2012, Steven Pifer and Michael E. O'Hanlon

Nuclear Arms Control: Challenges and Opportunities in 2013

October 10, 2012, Steven Pifer