What I Learned from the People who Built the Atom Bomb
When I began my career in elementary particle physics, the great figures who taught and inspired me had been part of the Manhattan Project generation that developed the atomic bomb.
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Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook
We come from different political parties and don’t agree on much when it comes to public policy, but one thing uniting us is the belief that American voters should decide our elections and no one else
US Energy Diplomacy in an Age of Energy Abundance
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy.
Real World Headwinds for Trump Climate Change Policy
It has now been 12 months since Donald J.
Trump's Iran Plan Does Too Much and Too Little
President Donald Trump’s advisers are at pains to emphasize that Friday’s speech on Iran policy was an effort to lay out a comprehensive strategy to tackle the malign behavior of the Tehran regime, no
A Lasting Defeat: The Campaign to Destroy ISIS
On December 11, 2016, just before my time as Secretary of Defense would end, I stepped off a C-130 transport plane onto a cold and dusty patch of northern Iraq that had been on my mind for more than a
How the U.S. Can Quell the Kurdish Crisis
More than 90 percent of Iraq's Kurds voted to declare independence last week, bringing tensions to an even higher boil across the Middle East.
The Effects of a Single Terrorist Nuclear Bomb
Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
The Paris Agreement has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success – a broad base of participation among the countries of the world.
Gorbachev: a Tragic Hero
By autumn of 1988, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev had been in power for three riveting years as general secretary of the Communist Party.
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