I am pleased to tell you that today’s post marks the return of David Maxwell to Lawfire®. Dave is one of the nation’s top authorities on North Korea, and he has fresh ideas for...
Do you know what CRISPR is? If not, today’s post is a must for you as new Lawfire®contributor Meredith Primrose Jones explains how if weaponized this technology could present an extraordinarily dangerous threat. At...
Recently the President warned business leaders that Russia has “a very sophisticated cyber capability” and “may be planning a cyberattack against us.” I agree, but I also think any such cyber-attack may not necessarily...
One of the most troubling concerns arising out of the Ukraine crisis is the potential impact on the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Why? At the end of the Cold War, the Arms Control Association (ACA)...
Do you know as much about nuclear deterrence as you’d like? Uncertain about the antinuclear hyperbole that’s been featured in the press of late? Fortunately, we have a new contributor, Mike Guillot, the former...
As the Supreme Court tells us, “no governmental interest is more compelling than the security of the nation.” Unfortunately, two prominent civilians – William Perry and Ambassador Thomas Graham – have each proposed separate...
Want a really important (yet also entertaining) summer read? I’d recommend 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, a new bestseller penned by my war college classmate and retired NATO commander Admiral Jim...
At our recently completed 26th Annual National Security Law Conference, we were honored to have Ms. Alexandra Perina, the Assistant Legal Adviser for Nonproliferation and Arms Control at the U.S. Department of State, give...
Registration for Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security’s (LENS) Annual National Security Law conference is smashing all our records, and we are expecting the largest number of attendees in our 26-year history. ...
A few weeks ago the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists headlined an interview with novelist and academic Jeffery Lewis claiming it would explain “[h]ow the coronavirus outbreak is like a nuclear attack.” Indeed, Lewis...
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010 where he is a professor of the practice of law and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.
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