North Korea: To Talk or To Provoke? By Duyeon Kim September 15, 2013 At the end of August the U.S. and South Korea conducted their joint military exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian (August 19-30), a drill Pyongyang views as a rehearsal for war. North Korea was notably restrained during the entire episode. Before the drills began, […]

Senior Science Fellow, Phil Coyle joins CCTV to discuss U.S.-Russian relations as they relate to Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile.

Weapons Inspections Don’t Look Like Syria By Paul McLeary September 12, 2013 Now that Syria’s chemical weapons—and not the fact that the regime of Bashar Al-Assad has killed over 100,000 of his own citizens over the past two years—is the main question facing American policymakers and diplomats at the UN, the issue of securing and […]

A 1991 U.S.-Russian Agreement Could Be The Model For Securing Syria’s Chemical Weapons September 12, 2013 By Hayes Brown Russia has provided to the United States its formal proposal for removing chemical weapons from Syria and while details are sparse, part of the plan could involve a two-decade old agreement between Moscow and Washington to […]

Lessons From Destruction of U.S. Chemical Weapons By Ben Kesling September 11, 2013 Even if the international community is able to take control of Syria’s chemical weapons, the U.S. experience in destroying its own stockpiles suggests eliminating those from Damascus could be a complicated, lengthy and even risky endeavor. The U.S. has been systemically destroying […]