Defense & Security

President Eisenhower visits India

How China shaped US-India relations during the Cold War

Monday, May 18, 2020

The F-22 Raptor takes off for its maiden flight at the Lockheed Martin facility at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia September 7. The $100 million dollar stealth fighter/bomber, built by the team of Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Pratt & Whittney, will run 8,690 tests during its first flight.

How COVID-19 might affect US nuclear weapons and planning

Monday, May 18, 2020

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi uses his mobile phone at his office in Baghdad, Iraq May 9, 2020. Picture taken May 9, 2020. Iraqi Prime Minister Media Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Iraq and the US still need each other

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Sara Allawi

Monday, May 18, 2020

Two German Air Force Panavia Tornado's trail a U.S. Air Forces Europe KC-135R Stratotanker April 28 after refueling in support of NATO Operation Allied Force. JbG-32 or Fighter-Bomber Wing Thirty-Two is one of the German Air Forces premier combat aircraft wings.

US nukes in Poland are a truly bad idea

Monday, May 18, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Third Enlarged Meeting of the Seventh Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in this undated photo released on December 22, 2019 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. - RC2ZZD9GVBIF

North Korea’s public health vulnerability

Jung H. Pak, Daniel Russell, and Kee B Park

Asia In-Depth

Thursday, May 14, 2020

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the completion of a fertiliser plant, in a region north of the capital, Pyongyang, in this image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 2, 2020. KCNA/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. - RC2RGG99L9GS

The real power of North Korea

Jung H. Pak, Norman Pearlstine, Al Hunt, and James Carville

2020 Politics War Room

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Afghan security forces stand guard outside a hospital which came under attack in Kabul, Afghanistan May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

After recent violence, is Afghanistan’s peace process dead?

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, May 14, 2020

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Britain's Secretary of State of Defence Ben Wallace after their meeting at Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

How Mark Esper is navigating the coronavirus crisis

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Overview of the 2nd Preparatory session of the 2020 Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland April 23, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

COVID-19 has given the 2020 NPT Review Conference a reprieve. Let’s take advantage of it.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Wednesday, May 13, 2020