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Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Arms Control and Nonproliferation
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A Standard Missile-3 Block 1A interceptor is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie during a Missile Defense Agency and US Navy test in the Pacific Ocean on February 13, 2013. (US Navy photo)
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(Screenshot via Fox News)
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A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test in Seoul, South Korea, on November 3, 2022. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nevada departs its homeport of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington, for a scheduled patrol on December 16, 2021. (US Navy Photo by Ian Zagrocki)
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Mansu Hill Grand Monument in Pyongyang, North Korea, on January 2, 2017. (Wikimedia Commons)
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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)
Experts
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
William Schneider
Senior Fellow
Abram N. Shulsky
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
