Even with the resurrection of arms control agreements now being abrogated or dismantled, there is reason to doubt that strategic stability, at least as understood in the old paradigm, could be reestablished or preserved.

In this podcast, hear the dramatic story of how we were able to denuclearize three countries in three years, directly from the participants: Senator Sam Nunn, Secretary William J. Perry, Secretary Ash Carter, and Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, one of the key members of the U.S. team.

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast into stark relief a harsh reality that health and biosecurity experts have been worrying about for many years: our extreme vulnerability to naturally occurring pandemics and man-made bioweapons.

Belfer Center experts weigh in on potential impacts of the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Following President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria, Belfer Center experts discussed the impact on America, our allies and adversaries, and the region.

While the authors make much of what intelligence collection did not detect, such as the Iranian intent to use a known tunnel for uranium activities before any relevant equipment was installed, their overall conclusion about fissile material production validates the explicit knowledge upon which the U.S. and its negotiating partners based the effort to secure the agreement: “At the same time, the combination of national intelligence activities and IAEA efforts had successfully identified that Iran had a program focused on development of nuclear weapons and had successfully uncovered nearly all of its efforts related to production of fissile material.