Imagine This: Truth That Sells the Lie
Imagine This is a brief series about fiction and policy. Works of fiction, because their worlds are constructed by people, reflect often implicit assumptions about our own world. These…
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Cameron Trainer
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Cameron Trainer is a Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He is a graduate of the University of St Andrews, where he studied International Relations and Russian.
Imagine This: Frank Herbert’s "Dune" and Nuclear Use
Imagine This is a brief series about fiction and policy. Works of fiction, because their worlds are constructed by people, reflect often implicit assumptions about our own world. These…
The Helsinki Summit Has Already Damaged US Interests Abroad
President Trump’s meeting in Helsinki with Russian president Vladimir Putin was… a lot. All said, the meeting was a pretty clear win for Putin. Trump publicly dismissed the unanimous…
The Trump-Kim Summit: Let’s Get Cynical
Donald Trump will, theoretically, meet face-to-face with Kim Jong Un this spring. Sure they’ve traded rhetorical barbs. A meeting between ‘rocket man’ and the ‘deranged US dotard’…
How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea?
Let’s start at the very beginning… the year is 1950, North Korea wages war against South Korea and a US-led coalition. Though an armistice establishing a ceasefire is signed in 1953, the…
Diplomacy Dies in Darkness
In case you hadn’t noticed, the United States isn’t exactly on friendly terms with North Korea. The US has claimed that Kim Jong Un is ‘begging for war’, promising an ‘effective…