Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
James Acton is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign-policy think-tank, and the author of Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security .
Will President Trump's first foreign policy test be in Asia? Barack Obama warned Donald Trump about trouble from North Korea, and his prediction is coming true. With North Korea's missile tests and America's missile defenses, China says they're like trains accelerating toward one another. China itself feels threatened, and South Korea, where the defenses are being installed, has just kicked its president out of office. Meantime, North Korea's Kim Jung Un appears to have orchestrated the public assassination of his half-brother. Is all this building up to a regional crisis?
International Nuke Bank Aims to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation The International Atomic Energy Agency has signed a deal with Kazakhstan, a former member of the Soviet Union. It will open the first, internationally-run bank for low-enriched uranium , the fuel for nuclear power plants. James Acton is co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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