New START

October 12, 2023 | Peter Doran |

To Support Israel, We Must Reverse Course on Iran

The Biden administration’s conciliatory approach to Tehran has only emboldened its aggressive policies.

June 17, 2022 | LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Gabriel Scheinmann

U.S. Restraint Has Created an Unstable and Dangerous World

Decades of ignoring the menaces posed by Russia and China has led the West to a precipice.

February 21, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman |

The Pros and Cons of ‘Deterrence by Disclosure’

Analyzing the Biden administration’s policy of making information about Russia’s movements and intentions public.

October 8, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Biden Must Continue the Bipartisan Nuclear Consensus

A nuclear arms race is underway, but so far, the only participants are Russia and China. The United States, for its part, is barely treading water.

June 18, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

What Happened at the Biden-Putin Summit? Not Much.

The two discussed Afghanistan, cyberattacks, and more.

June 11, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

What to Expect From the Biden-Putin Summit

Biden wants ‘stable and predictable’ relations with Russia. Is that possible?

December 7, 2020 | Maj. Shane “Axl” Praiswater |

Why We Need a New ICBM

The arguments for keeping a nuclear triad.

February 29, 2012 | Rebeccah Heinrichs The Hill |

Obama Broke Promise to Senate on Defense Spending

In selling his New START treaty with Russia, President Obama promised senators he was committed to improving U.S. missile defenses and modernizing America's aging nuclear arsenal. E...

January 17, 2012 | |

Obama’s Weaker, More Timid Approach to Defense Sends a Dangerous Message

Iran kicked off the new year with a host of challenges to the...

November 15, 2011 | |

Obama’s Disarmament Policy: We Go First

While the Obama administration has spent the last three years attempting to take the world down the Road to Zero nuclear weapons, last week the International Atomic Energy Agency released a repor...

November 14, 2011 | |

A Blow to Obama’s Russia ‘Reset’

Moscow dismisses the IAEA's latest findings on Iran's nuclear program.

October 12, 2011 | Rebeccah Heinrichs The Weekly Standard |

Sacrificing Missile Defense for ‘Reset’

When Barack Obama campaigned for president in 2008, he promised to “cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.” The word “unproven,” folks worried, could be used...

August 3, 2011 | |

Monsters’ Ball

Last week, a senior Russian official met two Republican senators and came away warning that the GOP would drive Washington’s relations with Moscow into the ground if they came back to power...

June 8, 2011 | |

Giving Away the Farm

The Obama administration is freely giving Russia sensitive information about missile defense that weakens U.S. national security

February 5, 2011 | |

Reagan at 100: The 40th President, American Security and Missile Defense

Co-Authored with Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III (USAF, ret.) A century ago, on Feb. 6th, 1911, Ronald Reagan was born. Much has been written about his presidential leade...

January 31, 2011 | New York Times

Who Stands With Iran’s Opposition?

PARIS — Excruciating new problems never nullify the old ones. In the case of Iran's potential nuclear threat, Egypt's gathering implosion — joined by some new elements of concern — is only mo...

December 30, 2010 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

After START

National security hawks lost a battle last week when 71 members of the Senate -- not all of them Democrats -- voted to ratify New START. The treaty limits America’s non-nuclear long-range w...

December 21, 2010 | National Review Online |

Corker’s Case for START: As Convincing as ‘A Letter from My Mother’

Patting himself and his fellow Senate Republicans on the back for selling o...

December 20, 2010 | National Review Online |

Advise, Don’t Consent

President Obama is writing to the wrong people, and those wrong people are hopelessly confused about his power and their own. This is how bad agreements are born. Senate Republicans coul...

December 16, 2010 | Andrew McCarhy National Review Online |

The Transies and the Treaty

Here is what you need to understand about the Republican party’s transnational progressives, folks like Condoleezza Rice, John McCain, Richard Lugar, and Lindsey Graham: They proceed from t...