The Trump administration’s May 3 announcement to extend waivers for critical nuclear international cooperation projects with Iran is a mixed bag.

This Op-ed originally appeared in InDepthNews, April 19, 2019.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump have both said they are willing to meet for a third summit but are looking for certain conditions to be met ahead of any meeting. Kim said the United States must be more flexible and Trump is looking for North Korea to demonstrate its willingness to give up nuclear weapons.

In the latest in a series of expert conferences and dialogues in Moscow and Washington, a group of distinguished U.S. and Russian experts released a public statement calling on U.S. and Russian officials to get back to the arms control negotiating table, with the first order of business being agreement on a five-year extension of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), as allowed for in Article XIV of the treaty, and talks designed to head-off new arms competition in the wake of the likely termination of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

IAEA Reportedly Inspects Iranian Warehouse

This op-ed originally appeared in IDN (Indepthnews), April 5, 2019.

Consistent with the recommendations of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2020 budget request would continue plans to expand U.S. nuclear weapon capabilities.

Remarks by Greg Thielmann

Grinnell College

April 1, 2019

Testimony by Jeff Abramson, Senior Fellow
Arms Control Association

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
“Proposed Small Arms Transfers: Big Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy”
March 26, 2019

This op-ed originally appeared in The Nation, Mar. 21, 2019.