Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are ...

Concerns about crime have been the foundation for decades of get-tough policies aimed at deterring crime. The belief is that ever-greater punishment — by hiring more police, increasing prosecution, ...

Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Carter Malkasian’s recent article on “America’s crisis of deterrence.” They debate whether recent policy failures are a breakdown of deterrence theory or U.S. policy, ...

Deterrence was once meant to prevent war. Today, it is designed to make war manageable. When the United States attacks Iranian-connected targets, but does not attack Iranian territory, when Iran ...

Regarding Sorin Adam Matei’s “The Ukraine War Calls for a Revival of Deterrence Theory” (op-ed, Aug. 23): Classical deterrence theory had a simple unifying goal: Defend democracy from communist ...

As much as it has been touted that AI can enhance military deterrents, its unbridled application can, in fact, weaken ...

Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll, Mar. 1, 1954. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy Subscribe for ads-free reading The beginning of the nuclear age in 1945 generated two ...

From 3–7 March 2025, members of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) have gathered for their third meeting since the agreement became law in 2021. About half the world’s countries ...

In the days of radio, when a batter crushed a basebal that was headed for a home run, the famous sports announcer Mel Allen described the ball’s trajectory as “going, going, gone.” The same descriptor ...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he has drawn on a graphic of a bomb used to represent Iran’s nuclear program as he addresses the 67th United Nations General Assembly at ...

The intersection of American interventionism in Latin America and Chinese strategic calculations regarding Taiwan represents a complex nexus of geopolitical signaling, precedent-setting, and great ...