Would Nuclearized East Asia Trigger an International Domino Effect?

The outcome of the 2016 United States Presidential election raises questions about President-elect Donald Trump’s East Asia policy and...

Evolving U.S. Nonproliferation Policy towards East Asia

The danger to U.S. nonproliferation policy in East Asia is the nuclearization of South Korea and Japan in response to an increasingly...

Japan, South Korea, and the NPT

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and...

North Korean Tests Spur South Korean Debate

North Korea’s 5th nuclear weapons test, conducted September 9th of this year, gave birth to South Korea's highest volume of calls for...

Article 9, Nuclear Weapons, and Japan’s Constitution

Similar to the other Axis powers following World War II, Japan’s constitution renounced war and all threat of force as sovereign rights...

Regional Consequences of a Nuclearized East Asia

On July 25, 1969, President Nixon announced with no advance warning to the country’s allies that, “as far as the problems of internal...