I was both honored and fortunate to serve in the U.S. Government—under both Democratic and Republican administrations—in various capacities during my career. A highlight was serving President Ronald Reagan in the State Department and the Arms Control & Disarmament Agency. (I received unanimous consent from both sides of the aisle in my confirmation by the U.S. Senate.) Those government experiences gave me the knowledge and perspective that underlies most of the analyses listed on this page.
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Academic Articles & Monographs
Many of the articles/monographs below have free e-prints available. You can check to see if one is still available by clicking on the link.
The 2025 National Security Strategy: Breaking More Than Continuity
An essay in Expert Commentary on the 2025 National Security Strategy, David J. Trachtenberg (Ed.)
Occasional Paper, National Institute for Public Policy, Volume 6, Number 3, March, 2026
https://nipp.org/papers/expert-commentary-on-the-2025-national-security-strategy/
An essay in Expert Commentary on the 2025 National Security Strategy, David J. Trachtenberg (Ed.)
Occasional Paper, National Institute for Public Policy, Volume 6, Number 3, March, 2026
https://nipp.org/papers/expert-commentary-on-the-2025-national-security-strategy/
China's Quest for a New International Order and Its Use of Public Diplomacy as a Means
Occasional Paper, National Institute for Public Policy, Volume 2, Number 11, November, 2022.
https://nipp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Vol-2-No-11-OP.pdf
Occasional Paper, National Institute for Public Policy, Volume 2, Number 11, November, 2022.
https://nipp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Vol-2-No-11-OP.pdf
Book Review of The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare, 1945-2020 by Tim Weiner
Comparative Strategy, Volume 40, 2021, Issue 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZVYMJFJFXWHQ7JQBBJMQ/full?target=10.1080/01495933.2021.1853443
Comparative Strategy, Volume 40, 2021, Issue 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZVYMJFJFXWHQ7JQBBJMQ/full?target=10.1080/01495933.2021.1853443
Maintaining Taiwan's Democracy
Comparative Strategy, Volume 39, 2020, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BSY6WHZWUIVQTZM8MCXA/full?target=10.1080/01495933.2020.1740568
Comparative Strategy, Volume 39, 2020, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BSY6WHZWUIVQTZM8MCXA/full?target=10.1080/01495933.2020.1740568
Possible Steps On Preventing Rape As A War Crime
Comparative Strategy, Volume 39, 2020, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZADQRBBXQ9JJD5G7QKBF/full?target=10.1080/01495933.2020.1740572
Comparative Strategy, Volume 39, 2020, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZADQRBBXQ9JJD5G7QKBF/full?target=10.1080/01495933.2020.1740572
Why the United States Should Unsign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and Resume Nuclear Testing
Comparative Strategy, Volume 22, Issue 2
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SCEBJVR5MGT4MFTASAIX/full?target=10.1080/01495930390202599
Comparative Strategy, Volume 22, Issue 2
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SCEBJVR5MGT4MFTASAIX/full?target=10.1080/01495930390202599
The Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention: Recapping Events of 2002
Comparative Strategy, Volume 22, Issue 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RZQBK3QIXXJRD6RQZPUB/full?target=10.1080/01495930390130490
Comparative Strategy, Volume 22, Issue 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RZQBK3QIXXJRD6RQZPUB/full?target=10.1080/01495930390130490
Iraq's Asymmetric Threat to the United States and U.S. Allies
Comparative Strategy, Volume 21, 2002, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PG49F6TFGQXGCJ2YUHAE/full?target=10.1080/01495930290042958
Comparative Strategy, Volume 21, 2002, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PG49F6TFGQXGCJ2YUHAE/full?target=10.1080/01495930290042958
De-alerting of U.S. Nuclear Forces: A Critical Appraisal
With Franklin Barish
Comparative Strategy, Volume 18, 1999, Issue 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9IQKBGXGXT27CGTQXFKB/full?target=10.1080/01495939908403159
With Franklin Barish
Comparative Strategy, Volume 18, 1999, Issue 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9IQKBGXGXT27CGTQXFKB/full?target=10.1080/01495939908403159
A Proposal for a South Asian Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty
With Satoshi Morimoto
Comparative Strategy, Volume 17, 1998, Issue 2 (Published Online 24 Sept 2007)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VBGVEYKCWEPRQ3QVHRSV/full?target=10.1080/01495939808403140
With Satoshi Morimoto
Comparative Strategy, Volume 17, 1998, Issue 2 (Published Online 24 Sept 2007)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VBGVEYKCWEPRQ3QVHRSV/full?target=10.1080/01495939808403140
Why We Have To Keep the Bomb
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 51, 1995, Issue 1 (Published Online 23 Nov 2015)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WAMAMSJI3XQZ7TTFYBWT/full?target=10.1080/00963402.1995.11658028
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 51, 1995, Issue 1 (Published Online 23 Nov 2015)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WAMAMSJI3XQZ7TTFYBWT/full?target=10.1080/00963402.1995.11658028
The Nuclear Deal with North Korea: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
Comparative Strategy, Volume 14, 1995, Issue 2
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AEG9WHAINMUZYRWVYWQG/full?target=10.1080/01495939508403020
Comparative Strategy, Volume 14, 1995, Issue 2
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AEG9WHAINMUZYRWVYWQG/full?target=10.1080/01495939508403020
North Korea: Enough Carrots, Time for the Stick
Comparative Strategy, Volume 13, 1994, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MKFJSVHBUMATJUAEV9IK/full?target=10.1080/01495939408402982
Comparative Strategy, Volume 13, 1994, Issue 3
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MKFJSVHBUMATJUAEV9IK/full?target=10.1080/01495939408402982
Hydronuclear Experinments: Why They are Not a Proliferation Danger
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCRL-ID-118538 (September 28, 1994)
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/78801-AmDMhO/webviewable/
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCRL-ID-118538 (September 28, 1994)
https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/78801-AmDMhO/webviewable/
Missile Defense and Nonproliferation
Comparative Strategy, Volume 12, 1993, Issue 1 (Published Online 24 Sept 2007)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BEKUIXDJCF29HTISVGBP/full?target=10.1080/01495939308402895
Comparative Strategy, Volume 12, 1993, Issue 1 (Published Online 24 Sept 2007)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BEKUIXDJCF29HTISVGBP/full?target=10.1080/01495939308402895
When and Why Weapons
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 36, 1980, Issue 4 (Published Online 15 Sept 2015)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HZJSHXDHJTUK5YFDAP6P/full?target=10.1080/00963402.1980.11458721
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 36, 1980, Issue 4 (Published Online 15 Sept 2015)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HZJSHXDHJTUK5YFDAP6P/full?target=10.1080/00963402.1980.11458721
Disinformation, The Media, and Foreign Policy
U.S. Department of State, October, 1987
Proceedings of the Airlie House Conference, May 4, 1987
U.S. Department of State, October, 1987
Proceedings of the Airlie House Conference, May 4, 1987
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Non-Academic Articles
Making a Feature Film in Dallas
FY50+ (Published online 4 Dec 2020)
https://fyi50plus.com/making-a-feature-film-in-dallas/
FY50+ (Published online 4 Dec 2020)
https://fyi50plus.com/making-a-feature-film-in-dallas/
Papers Written As A Student
While at university in the late 1960s and 1970s, I wrote many, many papers. I saved the ones that interested, and still interest, me. I am placing them in their own page, not viewable in the menu. You can view them here.