Russia Touts Illicit Nuclear Work in Iran
Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted about Russian civil nuclear work in Iran that runs afoul of U.S. law, but which the Biden administration failed to penalize, at a press conference in Moscow on...
Rosatom
New U.S. Sanctions on Leadership of Russian Nuclear Corporation Are Positive — But Should Be Just a Start
The State Department sanctioned senior officials of Rosatom, Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation, on Friday, including its CEO, Alexei Likhachev. These sanctions are long overdue and reflect the Biden...
Policy Briefs
Europe’s Nuclear Energy and Central Asian Uranium
The drive toward electrification coupled with the political decision to reduce fossil fuel consumption is creating a situation where, by necessity, there is renewed interest in nuclear energy. In...
Op-eds
U.S. Investigates Russian-Chinese Nuclear Cooperation
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) confirmed to Reuters last month that it is investigating whether China is helping Russia circumvent a ban on U.S. imports of Russian enriched uranium. Beijing’s...
Policy Briefs
Iran on the March: Restoring Deterrence and Stability in the Middle East
A Response By Richard Goldberg
Op-eds
U.S. Considers Nuclear Cooperation With Turkey as Congress Tees Up Sanctions
The United States and Turkey are reportedly in talks for American companies to build nuclear reactors in Turkey — an effort Washington claims will help Ankara shift away from Russian nuclear supply....
Policy Briefs
IAEA Condemns Drone Strikes on Russian-Occupied Ukrainian Nuclear Plant
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi on April 11 condemned three recent drone strikes on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), although it remains unclear...
Policy Briefs
Going Nuclear on Rosatom
Ending Global Dependence on Putin's Nuclear Energy Sector
Congressional Testimonies
Ending Dependence on Russia’s Nuclear Sector
An American ban on business with Rosatom would send domestic and foreign nuclear suppliers a strong market signal.
Op-eds
Viktor Orbán Is No Friend of America
Since his arrival in power in 2010, he has been openly laying the groundwork for the end of the American-led unipolar world.
Op-eds
G7 Members Announce Plan to Reduce Nuclear Fuel Dependence on Russia
The United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, and Japan announced a new initiative on Sunday to replace Russian nuclear fuels and further reduce “reliance on Russia in the nuclear fuel supply chain...
Policy Briefs
Russia’s War Demands a Long-Term Economic Response
Sanctions must be designed and enhanced to impose true consequences on Moscow for its reckless and destructive choices.
Op-eds
Biden is letting America help fund Russia’s nuclear-weapon complex
Vladimir Putin seems intent on threatening the West with nuclear war. What’s bizarre is Washington and its allies are helping him. The Russian dictator just proclaimed he may station...
Op-eds
Russia Is Fueling China’s Nuclear Weapons Expansion
A senior Department of Defense official on Wednesday confirmed media reports that Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company, provided China with nuclear fuel for a key reactor that will enable...
Policy Briefs
Totalitarians Inc.
Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?
Op-eds
The IAEA Needs Access to Ukraine’s Nuclear Power Plant. Biden Can Help.
Since Russia seized the plant in March, the safety and security of the plant have been in jeopardy.
Op-eds
Team Biden must stop Russia’s Iran deal
The Biden administration — which repeatedly asserts that it has adopted tough policies on Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine — plans to allow Moscow to receive a major economic windfall under a...
Op-eds
How Russia Could Earn Billions From Biden’s Revival of the Nuclear Deal With Iran
The Biden administration has two goals that are at odds with each other. It wants to ratchet up economic pressure on Russia, and it wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The problem is the 2015...
Insights
Congress must stop Team Biden from giving Russia a financial lifeline in Iran deal
Washington appears determined to undermine its own economic-sanctions campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine — and aid a second dictatorship in the...
Op-eds
Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine
The administration’s horror over Putin’s war is not merely performative, but functional—in the service of realigning with Iran