Tackling Non-proliferation After Iran
Ensuring nuclear non-proliferation will never be easy, but drawing the line at enrichment clarifies the distinctions nuclear latency too readily blurs.
Jack Cunningham
Program Coordinator, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History
Jack Cunningham is Fellow and Assistant Professor at Trinity College, University of Toronto, where he is also Program Coordinator at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History. He is a former editor of International Journal and has published on the conflict in Afghanistan, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and Canadian nuclear history. He writes here in a purely personal capacity.
Most Recent Posts
Canada and a
post-American NATO
In European discussions of NATO’s future, Canada is sometimes an afterthought, but this is in neither our interest nor the Europeans.
The Case for Attacking Iran’s Nuclear Program
With its proxies effectively neutralized and its own credibility and security impaired, Iran now has every temptation to accelerate its pursuit of a nuclear capability.
Ukraine Needs Anti-Personnel Landmines – And So May We
The return of large-scale war in Europe is reawakening the potent conventional deterrent of landmines and especially anti-personnel landmines
Debating War and Peace: Protest vs. Coercion
In Canada and elsewhere, the spread of pro-Palestinian encampments has triggered a vigorous debate about the limits of permissible protest.
Just War Theory: Fighting with one hand bound, not both
Ever since Israel entered Gaza it has been lectured about the need to avoid civilian casualties against an enemy whose defensive strategy is hiding behind them
An Alternative to the Two-State Solution
With the status quo unsustainable is there a way to “shrink the conflict”?
The case against total nuclear abolitionism
Amid
calls for a ban on nuclear weapons, Jack Cunningham proposes a different route:
instead of seeking total abolition, accept nuclear weapons where they reinforce
global stability, and oppose them where they undermine it.