Nukes
Ayatollah for a Day
I war-gamed an Israeli strike on Iran -- and it got ugly.
BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | NOVEMBER 10, 2011
Atomic Dreams
With new evidence that Iran’s nuclear weapons program is gaining steam, the Islamic Republic is once again in the world’s crosshairs.
BY MARK HIBBS | NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Trouble over Tehran
Five reasons that Israel and the United States might want to think long and hard about preemptively striking Iran's nuclear facilities.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Twilight of the Wise Man
The 2012 election may well mark the last gasp of the Republican foreign-policy establishment. But what’s more remarkable is that it lasted as long as it did.
BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | OCTOBER 12, 2011
Think Again: Nuclear Power
Japan melted down, but that doesn't mean the end of the atomic age.
BY CHARLES D. FERGUSON | NOVEMBER 2011
Atomic Dogs
Why can't the world's nuclear energy watchdog do anything about Fukushima or Iran's weapons program? I went to find out.
BY KONSTANTIN KAKAES | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The Final Failure
This is no time for either President Obama or the GOP to forget the threat of nuclear weapons.
BY SAMUEL R. BERGER, STEVE ANDREASEN | SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Ten More WikiLeaks You Missed
From the Indian April Fools cable to Hanoi's sexy discos to China's dangerous nuclear plants, Julian Assange's hits just keep on coming.
AUGUST 30, 2011
The Post-Fukushima Arms Race?
The ironic consequence of Japan's disaster might be a more dangerous global nuclear landscape.
BY HENRY SOKOLSKI | JULY 29, 2011
What Was at Stake in 1962?
A closer look at the nuclear stockpiles of the world's two superpowers as the Cuban Missile Crisis began.
BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2011
Hot Air Zone
Naoto Kan’s statement taking on Japan’s nuclear industry isn’t likely to accomplish anything.
BY ROBERT DUJARRIC | JULY 14, 2011
Betting Against the President
When Medvedev can't even convince party insiders to stick up for him, does he have a shot at keeping his job?
BY LEON ARON | JULY 8, 2011
For the Love of Money
From whiskey to nuclear secrets, North Korea plays a remarkably entrepreneurial role in international affairs for a Communist regime.
BY SIMON HENDERSON | JULY 7, 2011
The WikiLeaks You Missed
From blatant bribery in India to Hugo Chávez’s war on Domino’s pizza, here are the highlights from the last four months of the secret State Department cables.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 1, 2011
The World's Most Dangerous Borders
Thirteen places you don't want to be stuck at.
BY PHILIP WALKER | JUNE 24, 2011
The Brutal Truth
Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.
BY STEWART PATRICK | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Strategic Patience Is Strategic Blunder
Don't believe the hype: Obama's North Korea plan is a mess.
BY JOEL WIT, JENNY TOWN | JUNE 16, 2011
Billions for Missile Defense, Not a Dime for Common Sense
At a time of tight budgets, doubling down on a risky, easily foiled technology is more foolish than ever.
BY YOUSAF BUTT | JUNE 10, 2011
Giving Away the Farm
The Obama administration is freely giving Russia sensitive information about missile defense that weakens U.S. national security.
BY R. JAMES WOOLSEY, REBECCAH HEINRICHS | JUNE 7, 2011
Take Pakistan's Nukes, Please
The Taliban's brazen raid on a Karachi naval base shows why the Pakistani state can't be trusted with the world's most deadly weapons.
BY KAPIL KOMIREDDI | MAY 24, 2011
How to Talk to a North Korean
Advice from a career Pyongyang hand to would-be nukes negotiators: Bluster won’t get you very far.
BY JOEL WIT | APRIL 20, 2011
Nuclear Winner
Environmentalist icon turned nuclear-power booster Stewart Brand tells Foreign Policy why, even after the Fukushima disaster, he thinks nuclear is the energy of the future.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 22, 2011
Atomic Dogs
Fukushima wasn't the only nuclear accident waiting to happen. From Bulgaria to New York, here are five other nuclear power plants to keep an eye on.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 17, 2011
Leaks in All the Wrong Places
Why the Japanese public has good reason to distrust official information.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 14, 2011
Nuclear Power Is Worth the Risk
But there's much more we can do to reduce the odds of a catastrophe.
BY JAMES M. ACTON | MARCH 14, 2011
The New Virology
From Stuxnet to biobombs, the future of war by other means.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | MARCH/APRIL 2011
This Week at War: Lost in Space
Can the Pentagon afford to protect its orbital interests?
BY ROBERT HADDICK | FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Can the Nuclear Talks With Iran Be Saved?
Perhaps not, but here's a proposal worth trying.
BY OLLI HEINONEN | JANUARY 27, 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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