The Night Shift at Reykjavik: What ‘The Brink of War’ Tells Us about Arms Control
A new film dramatizes never-signed Cold War negotiations. Amy J. Nelson explains why the agreement failed—and what can be learned today.
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Beyond Bilateral: What Trump’s Multilateral Gambit Can and Cannot Fix Review
Amy J. Nelson's latest analysis in Arms Control Association's monthly journal on nonproliferation and global security.
Phantom Signaling: The Waning of American Nuclear Credibility
Future Security Scenarios Lab Director Amy J. Nelson's latest piece in Orbis Journal of World Affairs.
How Russia’s Undersea Nuclear Buildup Is Reshaping the Arctic
Russia is extending old submarines, fielding new
The AI Race Is a Clash of Mythologies
The US-China AI race is usually framed as a contest of compute and capabilities. The deeper divergence is mythological: America's frontier logic versus China's rejuvenation narrative. When these two s…
What the Iran MOU Gets Right, Gets Wrong, and Leaves Unresolved
Operationalizing Imagination
“Peace Through Strength” Is Hard to Read
New NYT Opinion Piece Co-Authored by Amy J. Nelson, Lab Director and Senior Fellow
The Worst Future in Iran—and How to Stop It
At a moment when most analysis is focused on what the strikes against Iran achieved, Petit asks the harder question: what do they make possible—and for whom? His answer is specific, unsettling, and ex…
Advice to the U.S. President
New America Senior Fellow Peter W. Singer discusses useful fiction and other advice with the Grappling Growth podcast.
Lab Director and Senior Fellow Amy J. Nelson Quoted by Slate
Future Security Scenarios Lab Director and Senior Fellow Amy J. Nelson was recently quoted by Ian Prasad Philbrick in a
The Maximalism Trap: How All-or-Nothing Diplomacy Undermines Nuclear Security
Maximalist nuclear diplomacy is undermining arms control at a moment when it is needed most.
The Quantum Curtain
New America Senior Fellow and Strategist Peter W. Singer uses fiction to explore the role of quantum encryption.
What Iran Signals About the Future of Nuclear Arms Control
The war in Iran being waged by the U.S. and Israel may further a shift in nuclear weapons management.