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.
The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
Venezuela spirals into economic and political chaos Venezuela, a country whose potential for prosperity is unmatched, finds itself on the verge of civil war. What sustains the repressive government? With time running out, guest host León Krauze looks at what the international community can do to pull the country from the edge of collapse.