Ulrich Kühn
War On The Rocks
Washington, DC, United States
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A Confidence-Building Defense for NATO
NATO knows what it needs to do at the upcoming Madrid Summit, but it still does not know how. The alliance is determined to strengthen conventional → Read More
A Letter from Moscow: (In)divisible Security and Helsinki 2.0
A Russian letter recently darkened Europe’s door. In it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized the alliance’s understanding and use of a → Read More
Deterrence and its discontents
What might Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, have found, had he lived long enough to study the 2018 US Nuclear Posture Review and its drafters? Anxiety about failure and death, fear of impotence, and an obsession with deterrence that obscures the ultimate question: “What is it that the United States wants in this world?” … Continued → Read More
Strategic Toughness Toward Russia the Key to Keeping Baltic Allies Safe
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania all face the constant threat of Russian intimidation and meddling in their internal affairs. → Read More
Germany’s Nuclear Education: Why a Few Elites Are Testing a Taboo
Days after the 2016 U.S. election, a small group of German experts began to publicly debate whether Berlin should pursue one of three nuclear options. Although the shallow debate was short-lived, over time this effort may turn out to be a bellwether of fundamental change in Germany’s national identity. → Read More
With Zapad Over, Is It Time for Conventional Arms Control in Europe?
Even though arms control cannot prevent deliberate escalation, at least confidence-and-security-building measures could diminish the risk of unintended escalation. But the political realities in Moscow and Washington are not promising for conventional arms control in Europe. → Read More
Introduction: Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control for the Next Decade
Which arguments could help to reinvigorate moral and political support for further nuclear disarmament? → Read More
Introduction: Nuclear disarmament and arms control for the next decade
A free-access article from the July/August issue of our subscription journal. → Read More
Keine Atombombe, Bitte
Trump’s election has set off dangerous nuclear rumblings in Berlin. At a time of rising European insecurity, Trump should move fast to reassure the continent. → Read More
U.S.-Russian Relations and the Future Security of Europe
U.S.-Russian relations under Trump might largely stay the same as before, which would make arms control solutions for Europe more urgently needed but at the same time much harder to achieve. → Read More
Status-neutral Arms Control: Promises and Pitfalls
The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union has led to the creation of a territorial reality characterized by new states with uncertain security status, separatist armed conflicts, and ethnic strife. → Read More
Institutional Resilience, Deterrence and the Transition to Zero Nuclear Weapons
The question of the resilience of arms control and disarmament institutions to different political or other pressures rests mainly on their continued ability to function effectively. → Read More
Institutional Resilience, Deterrence and the Transition to Zero Nuclear Weapons
The question of the resilience of arms control and disarmament institutions to different political or other pressures rests mainly on their continued ability to function effectively. → Read More
The Sudden German Nuke Flirtation
Some of Germany’s prominent voices are musing about the options of a German or non-NATO European nuclear deterrent should a Trump administration roll back U.S. commitments to the alliance. → Read More
Rediscovering Diplomacy: An Agenda for Decreasing Tensions between Russia and the West
As NATO moves closer to its July summit in the Polish capital of Warsaw, calls are increasing in Western capitals for NATO to re-engage in dialogue with Ru → Read More