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After Nuclear Deterrence: Insights and Uncharted Frontiers

Dr. Stephen Herzog and colleagues provide insights into the recently completed MacArthur Foundation-funded Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group.

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Rethinking the Deterrence-Disarmament Dichotomy: The Complex Landscape of Global Nuclear Weapons Preferences

Dr. Stephen Herzog and co-authors conducted––and published research on––the largest academic public opinion survey on attitudes toward nuclear weapons to date.

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Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail

Dr. Stephen Herzog is the lead editor of a newly published edited volume on counterproductive consequences in nuclear politics.

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Nonproliferation Review Publishes First Special Issue on “Beyond Nuclear Deterrence”

The Nonproliferation Review features a special collection of articles by the Harvard–MacArthur Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group.

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CNS AI and Nuclear Proliferation Research Wins Best Paper 2025 Award

Dr. Stephen Herzog’s work is recognized by the Society for Risk Analysis.

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The IAEA’s “Significant Quantity:” What It Is and What It Isn’t

The IAEA’s Significant Quantity (SQ) is a politically sensitive, approximate amount of nuclear material used as a baseline for determining inspection goals and frequency under the NPT, despite being often misunderstood as the minimum required for a weapon.

Securing the Nuclear Supply Chain: Exploring Counterfeiting and Other Risks

Video: This seminar is on a relatively neglected aspect of nuclear security, the supply chain, discussing counterfeiting and other risks and their impact on nuclear facilities.

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Getting Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: A Research Agenda

Dr. Stephen Herzog and co-authors lay out research directions for thinking about a durable nuclear-weapons-free world.

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The Inherent Unpredictability of Nuclear Deterrence

This essay by Jeff Knopf is the lead article in a special issue of The Nonproliferation Review featuring papers from the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence working group.

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Why States Join Multilateral Nuclear Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Treaties

Dr. Stephen Herzog publishes book chapter in volume on nuclear negotiations.