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Competition among China, Russia, and the West is taking the form of a battle to build reactors in Eastern Europe.

Pyongyang will never accept the shelter of another power’s nuclear umbrella.

The sudden departure of Brian Hook leaves the Trump administration scrambling to snatch some victory after two years of “maximum pressure” on Iran.

Trump’s Iran gambit is sweeping, punitive, and has little chance of success.

Seventy-five years after the first nuclear bomb fell, we are grateful it hasn’t happened again, mystified it didn’t, and terrified it still might.

Obama’s New START arms treaty limited Russian and American nukes. Now, U.S. officials want to rope in Beijing.

One of America’s weirdest strategic obsessions won’t go away.

But the draft has little support among major powers at the U.N., reflecting Washington’s isolation on its Iran policy.

Iran is resuming its enrichment of uranium, Syrian mercenaries are in Libya, and the Taliban are exploiting the coronavirus.

A U.N. panel concludes that the U.S. president’s outreach to Kim Jong Un has changed little in his behavior. 

As tensions escalate, Iran’s leadership appears to be considering withdrawing from the global nonproliferation framework entirely.

Deterrence theorists are pushing ideas that have never been tested.

Europe’s decision to start the dispute settlement process may set the clock ticking on the deal’s ultimate demise.

The coming year will either bring new U.S.-Russia talks or a renewed arms race.

The new head of the IAEA was the United States’ preferred candidate. But, as global tensions rise, he quickly needs to prove his independence.

Seoul may be trying to preserve its fading diplomatic outreach to Pyongyang.

With a deadline for restarting nuclear talks looming, North Korea ups the ante on the United States.

New evidence from the Yom Kippur War shows how such knots can lead to nuclear annihilation.

Ankara has been contemplating developing nuclear weapons since the 1960s.