by Lucas Ruiz | Oct 14, 2026 | Updates
A 40-year-old lesson about the courage to have dialogue. Source: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library By Charles Oppenheimer & Lucas Ruiz Forty years ago, on September 15, 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dispatched Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze to...
by Lucas Ruiz | Apr 17, 2026 | Updates
Nuclear Crises and the Failure of Theory By Christopher Preble and Lucas Ruiz On April 16, Oppenheimer Fellow Lucas Ruiz and his co-author Christopher Preble published their study “Why Strategic Superiority (Still) Doesn’t Matter: Nuclear Crises and the Failure of...
by Lucas Ruiz | Mar 27, 2026 | Updates
Finland Moves to Allow Hosting of Nuclear Weapons Finland is moving to lift its long-standing legal ban on hosting nuclear weapons within Finnish territory which dates back to 1987. This move comes amid intensifying debate in Europe over the role of nuclear...
by Lucas Ruiz | Feb 7, 2026 | Updates
New From Us Event Reflection: STARTing Over? Russo-American Arms Control at a CrossroadsOppenheimer Project–Stimson Center Online Panel 2/3/2610:00 am EST/7:00 am PT/6:00 pm MSK Event Recording Link: https://youtu.be/wg94UXgY0a4 Lucas: On Tuesday the Oppenheimer...
by Lucas Ruiz | Nov 26, 2025 | Updates
On Monday, November 17, our Oppenheimer Fellow Lucas Ruiz published an essay in The American Conservative arguing for President Donald Trump to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer to voluntarily extend the New START treaty for an additional year...
