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Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail

Dec. 16, 2025

From Managing the Atom

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Why Do Nuclear Policies Backfire? A Q&A with Stephen Herzog

Dec. 16, 2025
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Getting Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: A Research Agenda

July–December 2024 by Elbahtimy, Hassan , Rebecca Davis Gibbons and Stephen Herzog
Why States Join Multilateral Nuclear Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Treaties

by Stephen Herzog November 2025

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Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail

Dec. 16, 2025

Books

from MIT Press

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Why Do Nuclear Policies Backfire? A Q&A with Stephen Herzog

Dec. 16, 2025

Q&A

from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

15 minutes

Atomic Backfires Graphic

Getting Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: A Research Agenda

July–December 2024 by Elbahtimy, Hassan , Rebecca Davis Gibbons and Stephen Herzog

Article

from Nonproliferation Review

Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)

Why States Join Multilateral Nuclear Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Treaties

November 2025 by Stephen Herzog

Books

CTBT Group of Eminent Persons member Angela Kane at Swaziland’s ratification of the CTBT

Atomic Responsiveness: How Public Opinion Shapes Elite Beliefs and Preferences on Nuclear Weapon Use

2025 by Smetana, Michal , Lauren Sukin, Stephen Herzog and Marek Vranka

Article

from European Journal of International Security

House of Commons

Conventional Deterrence of Nuclear Use

Fall 2025 by Adam Mount

Article

from International Security

This April 3, 2006 file photo shows a B2 stealth bomber flying over Kauffman Stadium during baseball opening day ceremonies in Kansas City, Mo.

Inside the Kennedy School’s Long Fight to Prevent Nuclear Catastrophe

Oct. 24, 2025

In The News

from Harvard Kennedy School

Keeping Pace with the Times: China’s Arms Control Tradition, New Challenges, and Nuclear Learning

Summer 2025 by Wu Riqiang

Article

from International Security

Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019.