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Feb 10, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Jon Wolfsthal |Jim Townsend |Gibbs McKinley |Kate Johnston
After Donald Trump declared victory on November 5, 2024, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was one of the first world leaders to congratulate the future president of the United States publicly.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
cnas.org | Andrea Kendall-Taylor |Pablo Chavez |Jon Wolfsthal
The world has entered the third nuclear age, and nuclear weapons are increasingly seen as valuable—and even usable—weapons by a growing number of states. Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons, China’s rapid nuclear buildup, the United States’s unprecedentedly expensive nuclear modernization, and ongoing nuclear work in North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Iran all make clear the 21st century will be defined by nuclear risks.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Jon Wolfsthal
program The Nuclear Policy Program aims to reduce the risk of nuclear war. Our experts diagnose acute risks stemming from technical and geopolitical developments, generate pragmatic solutions, and use our global network to advance risk-reduction policies. Our work covers deterrence, disarmament, arms control, nonproliferation, and nuclear energy.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Jon Wolfsthal |Richard Fontaine |Franz-Stefan Gady |Franz-stefan Gady |Nicholas Lokker
The death of Alexei Navalny on February 16 has prompted glowing praise of the prominent opposition leader’s courageous efforts to transform Putin’s Russia into a “normal country.” In their eulogies, commentators have rightly celebrated Navalny’s promotion of free and fair elections and his campaign against corruption among the Russian elite.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Nicholas Lokker |Richard Fontaine |Franz-Stefan Gady |Franz-stefan Gady |Jon Wolfsthal
So when news broke in February that Russia was reportedly building some nuclear connected anti-satellite weapon, a lot of people started scratching their heads. First, because of the manner in which the news was leaked. Congressman Mike Turner seemed to get ahead of both the process and the intelligence itself, and created a bit of a panic by demanding full and immediate declassification of all information about the system.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Nicholas Lokker |Jon Wolfsthal |Richard Fontaine |Franz-Stefan Gady |Franz-stefan Gady
February 24 marks the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Heading into the third year of war, Ukraine faces a challenging outlook. No longer are U.S. and European leaders talking about Russia’s strategic failure in Ukraine. Indeed, the Kremlin appears confident that things are heading in Russia’s direction after Ukraine’s 2023 offensive and signs of U.S. reticence to sustain military support to Ukraine.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
nuclear-news.net | Jon Wolfsthal |Christina MacPherson
Biden has the power to rein in the nuclear presidency. He should use it. By Jon Wolfsthal, December 18, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/18/trump-nuclear-weapons-control-president-biden/Jon Wolfsthal is director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists as well as a former National Security Council senior director under President Barack Obama. In less than a year, America will elect a president. Whoever is sworn in on Jan.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Jon Wolfsthal
Jon Wolfsthal is director of global risk at the Federation of American Scientists as well as a former National Security Council senior director under President Barack Obama. In less than a year, America will elect a president. Whoever is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025, will immediately be vested with the sole legal authority to order the use of the United States’ nuclear weapons. If a sitting president decides to exercise that authority — for almost any reason — no one can legally stop them.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
boomboomboom.substack.com | Jon Wolfsthal
I was finally able to see Oppenheimer: The Movie this week. I went by myself, not wanting to subject my wife to multiple comments from me about whether this was right, or that never happened, etc. I did smile when two unsuspecting women sat down next to me in the theater, but managed to keep my thoughts to myself for the entire 3 hours. A new record.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
boomboomboom.substack.com | Jon Wolfsthal
AI Follow upI wrote this weekend about how the anniversary of the Trinity test (and by implication the upcoming 78th anniversaries of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) is an opportunity to take the growing dangers of nuclear weapons more seriously.
