Nuclear proliferation

Baines Report Op-Ed: Trump was right about the SALT cap

Oct. 27, 2021
"Democrats are at loggerheads over a progressive Trump-era revision to the tax code," writes LBJ student Ardian Shaholli in The Baines Report . "The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 slashed taxes for...

Baines Report Op-Ed: Imminent Iranian nuclear capability is not itself a redline

Nov. 2, 2021
"Experts project Iran may cross the nuclear threshold this month, meaning Iran would have the technology and enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear weapon—without actually having built one," writes LBJ student Kathleen Hillery in The Baines Report.

Baines Report Op-Ed: Imminent Iranian nuclear capability is not itself a redline

Nov. 2, 2021
"Experts project Iran may cross the nuclear threshold this month,

The Bay Area is sitting on a nuclear time bomb

July 2, 2020
"Quiet as it's kept, close to San Francisco sits a commercial facility with enough highly enriched uranium to make a nuclear weapon — on the scale of the bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II," writes LBJ's Alan Kuperman.

Alan J. Kuperman

Associate Professor of Public Affairs

Alan J. Kuperman teaches in the Master of Global Policy Studies program and is founding coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project. His research focuses on ethnic conflict, military intervention and nuclear nonproliferation. His latest books are Plutonium for Energy? and Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa, and his recent articles include "Obama's Libya Debacle" and "Muscular Mediation and Ripeness Theory." In 2013, he was a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, and in 2009 he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, both in Washington, DC. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Kuperman was resident assistant professor and coordinator of the international relations program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Kuperman worked as legislative director for U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY), as a legislative assistant for U.S. Speaker of the House Thomas Foley (D-WA), as chief of staff for U.S. Rep. James Scheuer (D-NY), as a senior policy analyst for the nongovernmental Nuclear Control Institute, and as a fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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