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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
Yashar Parsie is a contributor to Hudson’s Keystone Defense Initiative.
Yashar Parsie was a fellow in the Center for Russia and Europe at the United States Institute of Peace, a military legislative assistant in the United States Senate, and a researcher in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is part of the nuclear scholars initiative in the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Experts will discuss the arguments for and against US nonproliferation efforts and why nonproliferation remains a worthy goal.