Squadrons of fact-checking journalists have been deployed by news organizations over the past several months trying to provide some perspective on claims about key campaign issues, including the 2015 nuclear deal between six world powers and Iran that the Barack Obama administration and former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton have claimed credit for and that the Trump-Pence campaign has criticized.
This op-ed originally appeared in The Cipher Brief.
The conditions under which a U.S. president might use nuclear weapons has in recent weeks become a topic of national conversation.
Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) met at the ministerial level to review implementation of the nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The September 22 meeting in New York was the first ministerial-level meeting on the nuclear agreement since the ministers gathered to announce implementation of the deal in January.
This op-ed originally appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
As he enters his final months in office, President Obama is still evaluating options to reduce the role and number of nuclear weapons in US strategy. His final decisions are expected before the end of October.
The P5 nuclear-weapons states met recently in Washington, DC to discuss arms control and the future of strategic stability.
This op-ed originally appeared in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
For the second time during his presidency, President Barack Obama and his top advisors are re-evaluating whether to adjust the declared role of nuclear weaponsin US national security policy to meet the evolving global strategic environment and reduce the risk of nuclear war.
This article originally appeared in Indepth News.
This article appears in cooperation with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), as part of the initiative ‘Youth for CTBTO’. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the CTBTO. - Editor
This op-ed originally appeared in The National Interest.
This op-ed originally appeared in CNN.
Kingston Reif is the Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy at the Arms Control Association. You can follow him on Twitter at @KingstonAReif. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.
