Nearly one month into the U.S. federal government shutdown, foreign-policy and national security needs are being increasingly strained in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. So far, the White House, State Department, ...
A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow’s new film about nuclear war, premiered on Netflix on Oct. 24. It is a Hollywood production meant to entertain, and it does that well, ...
For almost as long as there have been nuclear weapons, there have been movies agonizing about the tortured class of professionals tasked with managing them. Most famously, 1964 saw the ...
Imagine China launching an invasion of Taiwan, and the United States decides to come to the island’s defense. Following the Pentagon’s doctrine and operational concepts for fighting such a war, ...
It’s hard to say which is a bigger achievement for Islamabad’s diplomacy: U.S. President Donald Trump’s shift toward Pakistan or the buzz over the recently announced Saudi-Pakistani “Strategic Mutual Defense ...
The agency that maintains America’s nuclear weapons stockpile is reportedly preparing to furlough about 80% of its workforce — highlighting the widening impact of the government shutdown as it enters ...
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed extending the terms of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) by one year. On Oct. 5, U.S. President Donald Trump said ...
On Aug. 28, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom triggered the U.N. snapback mechanism, leading to the reinstatement of pre-2015 sanctions against Iran last month. Despite Russian and Chinese efforts ...
The United States on Thursday dialed up the economic pressure a little more on Iran, with a spate of new sanctions designations meant to curb Iran’s trade in liquefied petroleum ...
The recent snapback of international sanctions marks the formal—and final—end to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. That deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, was ...
