Nuclear Weapons

A “Nuclear Umbrella” for Ukraine? Precedents and Possibilities for Postwar European Security, International Security, vol. 48, no. 3 (Winter 2023/24).

The False Promise of Nuclear Deterrence for Postwar Ukrainian Security, Lawfare, 31 March 2024.

Beyond the “Nuclear Umbrella”: Is a Different Security Path Safer for Ukraine? Interview by Jacqueline L. Hazelton, The MIT Press Reader, February 2024.

Review of Benoît Pelopidas, Repenser Les Choix Nucléaires, in Roundtable Review 15-17, H-Diplo/Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, 4 December 2023.

Film review of Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, Cineaste (Winter 2023).

Oppenheimer envisioned the tactical use of nuclear weapons. Putin now threatens it, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 23 October 2023.

Innovation and the Arms Race: Q&A with Matthew Evangelista

Randall Forsberg and the Nuclear Freeze Movement: Selected Materials from the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies Archive, December 2021, introduction to online digital collection (with Agniezska Nimark).

Review of Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War by Stephanie L. Freeman, Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 25, no. 4 (Fall 2023).

Review of Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union by Scott Ritter, Peace & Change, 6 March 2023.

Rejoining Iran nuclear deal is not easy, interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 18 March 2021.

Fakhrizadeh assassination deliberately intended to hinder return to JCPOA, interview with Mohammad Mazhari, Tehran Times, 8 December 2020.

Sanctions that limit people’s access to medicine are immoral, interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 18 December 2019.

Blurring the Borders of a New Discipline: The Achievements and Prospects of Pugwash History, in Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy: The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the Early Cold War, Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2019).

Introduction to The Pugwash Conferences and the Global Cold War: Scientists, Transnational Networks, and the Complexity of Nuclear Histories, H-Diplo Article Review Forum 852, 25 April 2019.

EU is under considerable pressure from the United States regarding SPV, interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 29 January 2019.

A Response to Gregg Herken’s review of Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, H-Diplo, 1 March 2018.

Bombes de gros calibre, armes nucléaires et drones : un siècle de trajectoires d’évolution, Violence de masse et Résistance – Réseau de recherche, Sciences Po, 27 January 2017.

Blockbusters, Nukes, and Drones: trajectories of change over a century, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 14, issue 23, no. 3, 1 December 2016.

Atomic Ambivalence: Italy’s Evolving Attitude towards Nuclear Weapons, in Italy’s Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century, Giampiero Giacomello and Bertjan Verbeek, eds.,  (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011).

Nuclear Abolition or Nuclear Umbrella: Choices and Contradictions in US Proposals, in Getting to Zero: The Path to Nuclear Disarmament, Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Judith Reppy, eds. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Second-Guessing the Experts: Citizens’ Group Criticism of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Estimates of Soviet Military Policy, International History Review, vol. 19, no. 3 (August 1997).

Cooperation Theory and Disarmament Negotiations in the 1950s, World Politics, vol. 42, no. 4 (July 1990).

Issue-Area and Foreign Policy RevisitedInternational Organization, vol. 43, no. 1 (Winter 1989).

Case Studies and Theories of the Arms RaceBulletin of Peace Proposals, vol. 17, no. 2 (June 1986).

Why the Soviets Buy the Weapons They DoWorld Politics, vol. 36, no. 4 (July 1984).

The Paradox of State Strength: Transnational Relations, Domestic Structures, and Security Policy in Russia and the Soviet Union, International Organization, vol. 49, no. 1 (Winter 1995).

The New Soviet Approach to SecurityWorld Policy Journal, vol. 3, no. 4 (Fall 1986). 

In Our Own Backyard: 1300 Nukes at Seneca Army Depot, November 11th (newsletter of Cornell chapter of United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War), no. 21 (October 1985).

What They Fear Across the Ideological Divide, New York Times, 13 January 1985.

Offense or Defense: A Tale of Two CommissionsWorld Policy Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 1983).

United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War, Trip to USSR (December 1984) (United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War, unpublished).

Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988; paperback, 1989).

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