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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
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(Screenshot via CBS News)
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The Republic of Korea and United States conduct combined attack squadron flight and precision bombing drills on October 4, 2022, in South Korea, following North Korea’s ballistic missile launch. (ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff).
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A Russian RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile complex during the Victory Day Parade main rehearsals on May 7, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)
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The guided missile destroyer USS Barry conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea on November 21, 2022. (US Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist Molly Crawford)
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Smoke rises from the impact of a of Russian cruise missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 10, 2022. (Photo by Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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People gather in protest against the the Iranian regime on September 19, 2022, in Tehran, Iran, following the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of the country's morality police. (Getty Images)
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(Screenshot via VOA Korea)
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President Joe Biden talks on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday, August 25, 2022, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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Anti-regime protests in Tehran, Iran, on October 8, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Military vehicles attend a rehearsal of the Victory Day parade on May 7, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Tian Bing/China News Service via Getty Images)
Experts
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
