Jane Darby Menton
@JDMenton
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Fellow @carnegienpp and director of the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference; prev @BerkeleyRisk PhD @Dept_of_POLIS, @OxfordMEC. Itinerant Floridian
Joined May 2011
For @CarnegieEndow I wrote about the perils of nuclear ambiguity, and what Iran (and the world) can learn from the saga of Iraq's nuclear program. TLDR: playing political football with international oversight rarely ends well for anyone:
carnegieendowment.org
Curtailing cooperation with the global nuclear order may be provocative, but it is not necessarily productive.
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Nuclear non-proliferation is central to U.S. national security and should remain a priority. Pleased to join @OSullivanMeghan to discuss our new Task Force report with @WalterIsaacson on @AmanpourCoPBS
https://t.co/MnSlymJDSE
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At a politically unstable time with growing international concerns around nuclear proliferation, a bipartisan task force is urging the U.S. to reconsider how it might intercept the expansion of this...
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Read @NicoleGrajewski and @JDMenton piece, "MENA at the Threshold? Proliferation Risks and Great Power Competition", in a series of essays by @TXNatSecReview on the shifting global nuclear order. Check it out here:
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@Lauren_Sukin @rohan_mukh @doyoung__lee @DebakD From Iran’s nuclear ambitions to great power competition over energy, this essay by @NicoleGrajewski and @JDMenton examines the complex nuclear dynamics shaping the Middle East and North Africa. 📖 Read here: https://t.co/axaVGJ7juA
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Huge thanks to @Lauren_Sukin and @rohan_mukh. Check out the article (and other essays) here:
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We situate the uncertainty surrounding Iran's nuclear program (after Israeli and US strikes) in a region that is changing in numerous ways, including dynamics among regional actors and aspirations in the civil nuclear domain.
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The @TXNatSecReview just published a series of essays on the shifting global nuclear order. Check out my piece with @NicoleGrajewski on the nuclear Middle East.
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A new rountable for @TXNatSecReview, Navigating the New Nuclear Map, edited by @Lauren_Sukin and @rohan_mukh brings together essays on how the global nuclear order is rapidly transforming across Europe, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, China, and the Korean Peninsula.
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I have a piece in the roundtable with Jane Darby Mention (@JDMenton) on the Middle East and the global nuclear order, highly relevant in light of the 12 day war and the impasse over Iran’s nuclear program.
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Nuclear proliferation is back on the global stage in a big, new way. What can Washington do – and change – to make the world safer? Task Force co-chairs Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Ernest J. Moniz, and Meghan L. O’Sullivan wrote for @ForeignAffairs:
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Washington must adapt its playbook for a new era of nuclear risk.
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I was delighted to talk w/ Major Garrett @CBSNews about the findings & recommendations of the bipartisan Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and U.S. National Security. And why Major's 1983 college paper on nukes was bad policy-even though he got an A!
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A bipartisan group of former senior government officials and national security experts is pushing the U.S. to revitalize its strategy for preventing more countries from acquiring nuclear weapons....
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“Fortunately, the vast majority of states still do not want nuclear weapons—in no small part because of the successes of U.S. strategy. But if even a handful of governments pursue the bomb, the world will be more volatile and dangerous.” https://t.co/P0bPIgjYnh
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Washington must adapt its playbook for a new era of nuclear risk.
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I was proud to serve on this task force on the future of the nonproliferation regime, with a robust focus on its long-term utility and strategic importance. Kudos to the @CarnegieEndow, @NTI_WMD @BelferCenter for organizing.
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Following decades of mostly successful efforts to combat the spread of nuclear weapons, multiple global trends are reviving the possibility of a world with more nuclear-armed states. These developm...
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Nuclear risks are rising as old safeguards fray. A new high-level bipartisan Task Force convened by @CarnegieEndow, @NTI_World, & @BelferCenter lays out a blueprint to prevent an era of nuclear anarchy. The report is freely available here: @carnegienpp
https://t.co/sTmsmYMUrn
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Following decades of mostly successful efforts to combat the spread of nuclear weapons, multiple global trends are reviving the possibility of a world with more nuclear-armed states. These developm...
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How should the U.S. confront nuclear proliferation today? Carnegie, together with @NTI_WMD and @BelferCenter, convened a bipartisan Task Force to explore this question – and point to some possible answers. Read the full report here:
carnegieendowment.org
Following decades of mostly successful efforts to combat the spread of nuclear weapons, multiple global trends are reviving the possibility of a world with more nuclear-armed states. These developm...
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🚨🚨🚨HOT OFF THE PRESS: @NTI_WMD, @BelferCenter, and @CarnegieEndow’s Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation and US National Security launched a new report today that provides a bipartisan blueprint for how the US can prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
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“Nuclear proliferation dangers are rising, and the regime that has helped hold these dangers at bay is badly frayed. This report provides a realistic, bipartisan strategy for how the United States...
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A new Task Force report by NTI, @CarnegieEndow, and the @BelferCenter warns of rising nuclear proliferation risks and lays out a strategy to protect global security. Read the full report now:
nti.org
“Nuclear proliferation dangers are rising, and the regime that has helped hold these dangers at bay is badly frayed. This report provides a realistic, bipartisan strategy for how the United States...
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Be sure to RSVP for @carnegienpp’s upcoming screening of ‘Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories from World War II,’ hosted by @JDMenton and featuring director @BeatriceBecette + producers @MsVictoriaKelly and @karintanabe. Sept. 9, 4pm EDT, in-person. Register: https://t.co/kUVioW0Iyt
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Join director @BeatriceBecette and producers Victoria Kelly and @karintanabe for a screening and discussion of their new documentary, Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories from World War II, hosted by @JDMenton. Sept. 9, 4pm. RSVP: https://t.co/SrBrHHgKSL
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"...Wars have a way of getting out of hand." (LBJ was not pleased)
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This is how Hersey introduced Hiroshima during a reading at the White House in 1965: "We cannot for a moment forget the truly terminal dangers, in the times, of miscalculations, of arrogance, of accident, of reliance not on moral strength but on mere military power."
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