Non-Proliferation Archives

North Korean ballistic missile and carrier in their victory day parade openly defy major power deterrents.

Why is North Korea Suddenly Launching an Unprecedented Number of Missile Tests?

Over the last several weeks, North Korea has launched an unprecedented number of missile tests. In one week alone in early November, North Korea launched over 80 missiles, including short and long range ballistic missiles. In this episode, we speak...

This is the First Podcast Interview With the 2017 Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Exactly two weeks to the day before this interview, Beatrice Fihn received a phone call from Norway. It was the Nobel Committee informing her that the NGO she leads, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, was awarded the 2017...

Podcast: Former Senator Sam Nunn Explains How a New “Fuel Bank” Can Curb Nuclear Proliferation

The world may just have gotten a little bit safer. In Kazakstan this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency is opening a new facility that will serve as a bank for Low Enriched Uranium. If it works at intended, fewer...

Ominous red haze with the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion that is the harbinger of nuclear devastation and human death.

Congress REALLY Shouldn’t Threaten to Cut Funding for Nuclear Explosion Monitors Around the World

News broke late last week that the Obama administration is planning a Security Council resolution that would effectively ban the testing of nuclear weapons. The move is being billed as a legacy issue for President Obama, who leaves office with...

WATCH: A UN Team Installs a Nuclear Detection System in one of the Most Remote Places on Earth

The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty bans all countries that have ratified it from testing nuclear weapons. It also created a UN entity known as the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization which monitors for nuclear detonations around the world, in theory...

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Turns 20. It’s an anniversary worth celebrating

I caught up with my guest today, Arms Control Association president Daryl Kimball from his hotel in Vienna. Daryl, along with hundreds of diplomats around the world were gathered for the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This...

How a Former Secretary of Defense Learned to Loathe the Bomb

William Perry was the 19th Secretary of Defense, serving in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1997. But in 1962, he was a 35 year old mathematician working in the defense industry and living in California. One day in October,...

The IAEA Faces Big Budget Pressures

Despite it’s high profile, the International Atomic Energy Agency suffers from some of the same funding challenges as many UN agencies. Now that it is at the heart of the Iran nuclear deal, will its member states ease up on...

5 Things About the IAEA That May Surprise You

Ed note. A nuclear deal with Iran has been struck! This post originally appeared in April, after the framework agreement was signed which lead to yesterday’s diplomatic breakthrough. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been in the news recently as...

Why is North Korea Suddenly Launching an Unprecedented Number of Missile Tests?

This is the First Podcast Interview With the 2017 Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Podcast: Former Senator Sam Nunn Explains How a New “Fuel Bank” Can Curb Nuclear Proliferation

Congress REALLY Shouldn’t Threaten to Cut Funding for Nuclear Explosion Monitors Around the World

WATCH: A UN Team Installs a Nuclear Detection System in one of the Most Remote Places on Earth

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Turns 20. It’s an anniversary worth celebrating

How a Former Secretary of Defense Learned to Loathe the Bomb

The IAEA Faces Big Budget Pressures

5 Things About the IAEA That May Surprise You

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations