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Strategic Stability in the Cold War: Lessons for Continuing Challenges

Date de publication
13 February 2011
Accroche

During the Cold War, the phrase “strategic stability” gained currency both as a foreign policy objective and as an apt way of describing the fact that the United States and the Soviet Union never actually went to war.

Chinese Perceptions of the Utility of Nuclear Weapons: Prospects and Potential Problems in Disarmament

Date de publication
16 June 2010
Accroche

This paper takes a careful look at China's perceptions of the role of nuclear weapons in its national security policy and defense posture.

North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Development: Implications for Future Policy

Date de publication
23 April 2010
Accroche

Despite the resumption of high-level diplomatic contact between Washington and Pyongyang in late 2009, realization of a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula remains a very remote prospect, with the DPRK insisting that a peace agreement between the U.S. and North Korea and hence the cessation of "hostile DPRK-U.S. relations" are necessary before any consideration of denuclearization.

In Search of the Nuclear Taboo: Past, Present, and Future

Date de publication
11 January 2010
Accroche

One of the most puzzling - if positive - phenomena of the past half century is the non-use of nuclear weapons. 

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