KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For almost a year, the community has heard mentions of a tactic called "focused deterrence" when talking about violence prevention in Kansas City, Missouri. In May of 2023, city and ...
PURPOSE: BUILD AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS TO STRENGTHEN DETERRENCE. Widespread alarmism about autonomous weapons has undermined U.S. military competitiveness. Autonomous weapons are not inherently unethical ...
As US President Donald Trump’s second term unfolds, Taiwan finds itself manoeuvring with a familiar but less predictable ...
The shooting of a police officer is an event that can shake citizens of a community to their very core. The shooting of Scranton Police detective is a tragedy, and his recovery appears to be a long ...
The United States needs a replacement concept for deterrence, the theory that was a child of the Cold War. It no longer is fit for purpose. Why? A war in which there were only losers and no winners ...
Vol. 20, No. 1, The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War: Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories (Winter 2018), pp. 101-139 (39 pages) This article sheds ...
Of course, the contrast between messy reality and tidy theory is no refutation of a theory; it may simply represent a failure to apply the theory as systematically as it might have been. In the case ...
From 3–7 March 2025, members of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) have gathered for their third meeting since the agreement became law in 2021. About half the world’s countries ...
Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll, Mar. 1, 1954. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy The beginning of the nuclear age in 1945 generated two conflicting emotions among scientists, ...