This paper reviews and ranks major proposed energy-related solutions to global warming,
air pollution mortality, and energy security while considering other impacts of the proposed …

This critical review of the new political science literature on the causes of nuclear weapons
proliferation consists of seven parts. The first section briefly presents what we know about …

Building on the rationalist literature on sanctions, this article argues that economic and
political sanctions are a successful tool of nonproliferation policy, but that selection effects …

For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the
United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to …

The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy
as soon as we can. Failure to do so will cause catastrophic climate damage sooner than you …

Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear
weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful …

Since its enactment in 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has become one
node of a massive, sprawling, multibillion-dollar regime that is considered essential to …

The capacity to build nuclear weapons—known as “nuclear latency”—is widely believed to
be important in world politics. Yet scholarly research on this topic remains limited. This paper …

When and why do states transfer nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge to other
states for peaceful purposes? This question is important given the recent finding that …

When do states acquire nuclear weapons? To address this question, a strategic theory of
nuclear proliferation must take into account the security goals of all of the key actors: the …