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Over the next two days, we are celebrating the life and work of Owen Coté, former associate director of SSP. Today, colleagues gather to workshop Owen’s unfinished book. Tomorrow, Owen’s legacy will be honored through a day-long memorial including panel discussions on his

In a new research article for the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Stanton Fellows Samuel Seitz and Lauren Sukin evaluate the emerging risks and challenges of contemporary regional nuclear security policy. Read the full article: tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

At the intersection of theory and practice, Wargaming Lab Co-director Erik Lin-Greenberg discusses how his military and academic experiences inform one another. “War games are data-gathering tools,” he says, “and the lab allows me to integrate academic tools, like experiments, into war

SSP Senior Research Associate Jim Walsh speaks with WBUR’s Here & Now about what the rapid escalation between Israel and Iran could lead to and what’s at stake for the region.

Jim Walsh (Jim Walsh) SSP senior research associate speaks with WBUR's Here & Now about the state of Iran’s nuclear program after days of sustained attacks from Israel. 🔊🔊

Do Madman Tactics Work? Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Samuel Seitz explores the effectiveness of “madman behavior” in international politics and brinksmanship with examples ranging from the Cold War to the current Trump administration. 🔊 cato.org/multimedia/pow… via

“Kyiv’s creative use of relatively low-tech and low-cost quadcopters demonstrates how drones can lower the barrier to obtaining long-range precision strike capabilities that were once the domain solely of advanced military powers,” writes Erik Lin-Greenberg for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

On Israel’s strikes on Iran, SSP’s Caitlin Talmadge writes, “the war may damage but not end Iran’s nuclear program.” In fact, she says the Israeli campaign may not be what it seems. Read more from ProfTalmadge and other The Brookings Institution experts on what may happen next.

“For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Washington will need to develop more, different, and better nuclear capabilities and begin to deploy them in new ways,” writes Vipin Narang and Pranay Vaddi of SSP’s Center for Nuclear Security Policy. Read their full article

“Despite fiery rhetoric, Russia has offered Iran no real support after US strikes, revealing Moscow’s weakened position, competing interests, and reluctance to jeopardize ties with Israel, the Gulf, or Trump,” writes SSP’s Carol Saivetz. Read her full article via

“Following Israel’s air attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites, which the United States joined a week later through Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei now faces unpleasant options,” writes Pranay Vaddi, Senior Nuclear Fellow at the Center for

“U.S. strikes on Iran will hold important implications for the balance of power in the Middle East and the future of deterrence in the Indo-Pacific,” writes SSP’s ProfTalmadge for The Brookings Institution. brookings.edu/articles/the-g…