Analysis / CommentaryCSIS European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues: Consensus StatementByRebecca HersmanPublished Feb 22, 2019The European Trilateral Track 2 Nuclear Dialogues, organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in partnership with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and the Fondation pourla Recherche Stratégique (FRS), has convened senior nuclear policy experts from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States (P3) for the past ten years to discuss nuclear deterrence, arms control, and nonproliferation policy issues and to identify areas of consensus among the three countries.
Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen CommunityCSIS PONI – UK PONI Bilateral: Grounding Nuclear Issues in RealityByCristina VarrialePublished Oct 24, 2017Day-to-day conversations don’t always stop to take stock of the weapons being discussed. Exchanges and site visits like these ground some of the issues that are easily lost in an array of nuclear narratives.
Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen CommunityBrexit and the Trident Renewal: More Questions than Answers for NATO’s Nuclear DeterrentByJared Dunnmon and CSIS PONIPublished Jul 20, 2016The Trident system is a key operational component of the NATO deterrent architecture, and without an effective infrastructure to support Trident, NATO may find itself in the new, and unenviable position of relative nuclear weakness.
Analysis / Commentary, Next Gen CommunityModerate the alliance outliersByTimothy Stafford and CSIS PONIPublished Jun 4, 2016Both South Korea and Turkey enjoy explicit nuclear guarantees. Yet under the Obama administration, relations with each have lurched to opposite ends of the ‘reassurance spectrum.’ As a result, both feel less secure than they should.
Analysis / CommentaryUnited Kingdom Debates Scrapping Nuclear Program: Why the United States CaresByRebecca HersmanPublished Feb 26, 2016The United Kingdom has maintained a continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent since April 1969, with one ballistic missile submarine on patrol at all times.