North Korea has tended to ratchet up tensions when the U.S. is seen to be weak and when it feels it can yield greater concessions, a scholar explains.
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The US has 50 nuclear bombs stored in Turkey. As tensions rise between the two countries, a look at how they got there and what might happen next.
The US has withdrawn from a major arms control treaty with Russia, and Russia followed suit. So, what was the treaty, and what happens now?
The Versailles Conference set up the ill-fated League of Nations. We must not allow the United Nations to suffer the same fate.
American military personnel must pass a fitness for duty exam before they serve. Nuclear weapons handlers undergo a rigorous screening process. Shouldn’t the president also undergo such exams?
Donald Trump is eroding American diplomacy and what’s known as soft power. Here’s how that may result in a new world order.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s risky unreliability will diminish as his country builds ties with South Korea. So Korean unification may be a better focus for Tuesday’s summit than denuclearization.
Fears about nuclear annihilation have come and gone over the years until the threat was all but forgotten. Then Kim Jong-un started flexing his nuclear muscles
At a time of increasing threat of nuclear war, a historic treaty to ban nuclear weapons might provide a much-needed panacea.
A former member of the Australian delegation to the Committee on Disarmament in Geneva explains how the CTBTO monitoring system detects nuclear tests.
The international community has been trying to stop North Korea from developing long-range missiles for decades. So what went wrong?
A nuclear physicist and disarmament expert recommends reading on nuclear disasters, weapons, authoritarianism and climate change.
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
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Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London
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Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Research fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts, Richmond American International University
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Senior Research Fellow Department of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Public Health, The University of Melbourne
