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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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March 1, 2006
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism
Overview A nuclear attack by terrorists against the United States has the potential to make the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, look like a historical footnote. In addition to the imme…
November 19, 2014
Nigeria
U.S. Policy to Counter Nigeria's Boko Haram
Overview The militant Islamist group Boko Haram's increasingly bold attacks in Nigeria—most notably its April kidnapping of nearly three hundred female students—threaten to fuel further Muslim-Chr…
November 1, 2010
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
Toward Deeper Reductions in U.S. and Russian Nuclear Weapons
Overview The New START Treaty, signed by presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in April 2010, was an important achievement. A follow-on to the 1991 START treaty, New START commits both count…
June 20, 2014
Defense Technology
Limiting Armed Drone Proliferation
Overview The Obama administration should pursue a strategy that places clear limits on its own sale and use of armed drones lest these weapons proliferate and their use becomes widespread. These a…
June 2, 2011
International Law
Justice Beyond The Hague
Overview When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established more than twenty years ago, the international community had little experience prosecuting the per…
