Commentary / World Dec 31, 2019
Don't believe Putin's hype about hypersonic missiles
by Gwynne Dyer
Hypersonic missiles are just another cog in the strategy of nuclear deterrence.
Commentary / World Nov 5, 2019
The risk of entrapment by self-fulfilling nuclear prophecy
by Ramesh Thakur
We increase the probability of a self-fulfilling prophecy of growing direct nuclear threats by merely opening the discussion of independent deterrents.
World Sep 11, 2014
Putin says nuclear deterrent must be maintained; Russia tests ICBM
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia must maintain its nuclear deterrence to counter what he called growing security threats, after Moscow test-launched an intercontinental nuclear missile. With ties between Moscow and the West frayed by the crisis in Ukraine, Putin also took greater control ...
Editorials Apr 20, 2014
A conference in Hiroshima highlights the divide between nations that advocate the outright elimination of nuclear weapons and those, like Japan, that hope for a gradual phaseout because they rely on a deterrent "nuclear umbrella" for their own security.
Commentary / World Aug 18, 2013
Global threat of nuclear deterrence
by Ramesh Thakur
lmost half a century after the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed, the world is still perched precariously on the edge of the nuclear precipice.