Jonathan Pearl was a 2010-2011 Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a PhD candidate in government and politics at the University of Maryland. He was also a 2010-2011 Jennings Randolph peace scholar at the United States Institute of Peace.
Mr. Pearl's research at CFR focused on the determinants of sensitive nuclear cooperation between nuclear and non-nuclear weapon states. He has previously written on strategic coercion as an element of U.S. foreign policy, on nuclear arms control, on strategic stability in nuclear relationships, and on nuclear disarmament.
During the summer of 2010, Mr. Pearl worked on nuclear safeguards and export controls at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also has worked on nuclear arms control as an adjunct researcher and summer associate at the RAND Corporation (2009). Before commencing his doctoral studies, he served for four years as a foreign policy adviser to Senator Christopher J. Dodd (2002-2006).
He has been a nuclear scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and he currently sits on the board of advisers for CSIS's Project on Nuclear Issues. He holds an MA in government and politics from the University of Maryland and a BA in music from Florida Atlantic University.
Upcoming negotiations are shadowed by Iran's increasing uranium enrichment capabilities. Four nonproliferation experts provide a path for resolving the intensifying nuclear dispute.
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The events convulsing the Middle East should prompt supplier states to place a moratorium on most nuclear cooperation with the region and devise long-term plans for better safeguarding major nuclear sites around the world, writes CFR's Jonathan Pearl.
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Jonathan Pearl says that with the New START treaty entering into force, next steps must begin now for the U.S. to achieve further bilateral nuclear reductions with Russia.
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Jonathan Pearl says that in the wake of the uprisings in the Middle East the United States must not neglect the issue of nuclear nonproliferation.
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Jonathan Pearl cautions that the Obama administration should be careful not to place too much weight on the new START treaty as a stepping stone toward deep nuclear force reductions and global nuclear disarmament.
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Jonathan Pearl argues that in the Russia-Venezuela nuclear deal, the United States must be wary of Venezuela's relationship with Iran.
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Venezuela's stepped-up efforts to develop nuclear power and tighten its bonds with Iran require a firm but deft diplomatic response from the Obama administration, write CFR's Joel Hirst and Jonathan Pearl.
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Jonathan Pearl argues that easing restrictions on Jordan's uranium enrichment will actually allow the Obama administration to set a new, strengthened standard for nuclear cooperation agreements.
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