Author Archive

Joshua Pollack

Editor, Nonproliferation Review

Joshua Pollack is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and the editor of the Nonproliferation Review.
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Why Do US Hypersonic Missile Tests Keep Failing? They’re Going Too Fast

If it’s so important to deploy these new missile types, development schedules should be revised to promote success.

  • Joshua Pollack
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Netanyahu and Iran's Atomic Archive: What's New and What's Not

Among the new bits: Tehran's nuclear planners envisioned an arsenal so small as to make Kim Jong Un giggle.

  • Joshua Pollack
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Let's Walk This Through: If North Korea Launches An ICBM, Then...

It takes a lot of rosy assumptions to get to President Trump’s 97% chance of success.

  • Joshua Pollack
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The Clear Logic of the Latest North Korean Test

Kim Jong Un has a predictable purpose and a plan.

  • Joshua Pollack, The Atlantic