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How to restore US credibility in Africa

Friday, January 29, 2021

UNDATED PHOTO - A Trident II, or D-5 missile, is launched from an Ohio-class submarine in this undated file photo. According to a congressional report to be released May 25, China stole U.S. nuclear weapons design secrets over 20 years through espionage at government laboratories and will use the information to upgrade its own arsenal. Among the information reported to have been stolen, was details of the W-88 nuclear warhead, which is carried on the Trident submarine and described in the report as "the most sophisticated nuclear weapon the United States has ever built.

Enhancing strategic stability: New START and beyond

January/February 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about administration plans to strengthen American manufacturing during a brief appearance in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The Biden presidency and Ukraine

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Challenges for the Biden administration: Addressing the evolving air and missile threat

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A Russian Antonov-30B airplane, a twin-engine turboprop aircraft,designed for aerial photography is parked on the tarmac at a militaryairport in Melsbroek August 13, 2002. A Russian military missionarrived in Belgium for a two-day series of observation overflights inaccordance with the "Open Skies Treaty" signed in 1992 by member statesof NATO and the former Warsaw Pact. REUTERS/Francois LenoirHRM/

Saving the Open Skies Treaty

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska during Flight Test THAAD (FTT)-18 in Kodiak, Alaska, U.S., July 11, 2017. During the test, the THAAD weapon system successfully intercepted an air-launched intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) target. Leah Garton/Missile Defense Agency/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Should US missile defenses be a part of arms control negotiations with Russia?

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

A lady is voting in a polling station in Yopougon, an urban commune of Abidjan, the 31th of October 2020. Ivorians go to the polls for the first round of the presidential election. Some 7.5 million voters out of 25 million inhabitants must decide between the four candidates, Kouadio Konan Bertin, Alassane Ouattara, Pascal Affi N'Guessan and Henri Konan Bédié. Photography by Virginie Nguyen Hoang / Hans Lucas.Une ivoirienne vote dans une école de Yopougon, commune urbaine d'Abidjan, le 31 octobre 2020. Les Ivoiriens se rendent aux urnes pour le premier tour de l'élection présidentielle. Quelque 7,5 millions de votants sur 25 millions d'habitants doivent départager les quatre candidats en lice, Kouadio Konan Bertin, Alassane Ouattara, Pascal Affi N'Guessan et Henri Konan Bédié. Photographie de Virginie Nguyen Hoang / Hans Lucas.NO USE FRANCE

Why supporting resilient political systems is key to a successful Biden democracy agenda

Patrick W. Quirk

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool/File Photo

Biden can pass his China test

Javier Solana and Eugenio Bregolat

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

- 1952 FILE PHOTO - The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain 1352d Photographic Squadron. The top secret film studio, then located in Hollywood, California, produced thousands of classified films for the Department of Defence and the Atomic Energy Commission beginning in 1947. A 50th anniversary tribute to these "Atomic Cinematographers" and their work is planned for October 22 in Hollywood. BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE

Where next on nuclear arms control?

The Brown Journal of World Affairs Fall/Winter 2020

FILE PHOTO: Flags of Taiwan and U.S. are placed for a meeting between U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce speaks and with Su Chia-chyuan, President of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

The path to protecting bipartisan US support for Taiwan

Monday, January 25, 2021