Sharon Squassoni
BulletinOfTheAtomic
Washington, DC, United States
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How the Biden administration can secure real gains in nuclear arms control
Nuclear arms control has entered a new and infinitely more complex phase. Though the Biden administration has not underestimated the difficulty of next steps, it must do more than articulate goals. The US must impart a sense of urgency to arms control. → Read More
Trump appointee wants “arms control for adults.” Experts couldn’t agree more.
Not only do many of Chris Ford’s critiques fall flat, they would also be better directed at the very administration he serves. → Read More
Recycle everything, America—except your nuclear waste
Unconventional nuclear reactors may reduce the level of some nuclear isotopes in the spent fuel they produce, but that won’t change what really drives requirements for our future nuclear waste repository: the heat production of spent fuel and amount of long-lived radionuclides in the waste. → Read More
The Arms Control Believer
Lassina Zerbo isn’t letting the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty go. → Read More
Charisma in the nuclear age
Trump’s charismatic and chaotic brand of leadership may have helped jump-start talks about North Korea’s nuclear program, but it is inherently dangerous. → Read More
Sharon Squassoni
Sharon Squassoni is research professor of practice at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy, a program of the George Washington University's Elliot School of International Affairs. → Read More
How to Bring the US-NK Rollercoaster Back to Earth
It starts with a sober assessment of what’s possible. Not on that list: Pyongyang somehow forgetting how to make nukes. → Read More
How to Bring the US-NK Rollercoaster Back to Earth
How to Bring the US-NK Rollercoaster Back to Earth By Sharon Squassoni May 25, 2018 After a decade of despair and neglect, experts on North Korea’s nuclear weapons are thrilled and terrified at the prospect of all that could go right or wrong in negotiations with that secluded state. In the last month alone, nuclear diplomacy with North Korea has reached giddy heights and dismaying lows, and the… → Read More
Threat assessment: Potemkin Putin versus the US Nuclear Posture Review
Which has more potential to ratchet up an arms race? Vladimir Putin's March 1 address to the Russian Federal Assembly or the US Nuclear Posture Review? → Read More
Through a fractured looking-glass: Trump’s nuclear decisions so far
The Trump administration’s ability to think through the longer-range implications of broad policy choices it makes now about the US nuclear arsenal, arms control, and efforts to deter nuclear proliferation will affect world strategic stability far into the future. → Read More
A failure in discretion: the meaning of the Trump leak to the Russians
It took just five days for the story to emerge that President Trump disclosed highly classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak when he met with them in the oval office on May 10. At first, the public outcry was a little reminiscent of that scene in the movie Casablanca—we are shocked, shocked (!) to find… → Read More