Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the 2017 G-20 Hamburg Summit.

Welcome to the new nuclear arms race

By Tom Collina

April 2, 2019

If you missed out on the first nuclear arms race, you’re in luck. It’s back. On Friday, the Trump administration announced the U.S. would…

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INF Treaty Crisis: Background and Next Steps

By Daryl G. Kimball

February 1, 2019

The Trump administration announced today that effective tomorrow, Feb. 2, the United States will suspend implementation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and formally notify other parties to….

Trump, Reagan, and Missile Defense.

Trump, Reagan, and Missile Defense

By Jerry Rogers

April 29, 2017

President Ronald Reagan was frequently two steps ahead of everyone else—the media, the Congress, the Soviets. Reagan’s ‘head-for-knowing’ was evidenced by…

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Two to Tango With Nuclear Weapons

By Peter D. Zimmerman

April 27, 2017

Somewhere in the American southwest, not so very far from civilization, there is a fenced and guarded compound within another fenced and guarded compound in the…

Nevada Test Site Craters

The Nuclear Test Ban: Time to Finish What We Started

By Sergei Ryabkov and Lassina Zerbo

April 21, 2017

The growing global concerns about North Korea’s nuclear weapons capabilities and tensions in the region are a stark reminder of the need to re-energize the cooperative,…

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How to Make the Nuclear Button Safer

By Michael Krepon

April 13, 2017

As we mark the centenary of the United States’ entry into World War I, I recall the words of a participant in the Versailles Treaty, which ended that conflict….

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Donald, Have I Got a Deal for You

By Thomas L. Friedman

March 15, 2017

Every president has an early foreign policy test, and Donald Trump is no exception. Trump’s test is actually already in progress, and it bears some resemblance…

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New nukes? No thanks.

By Daryl G. Kimball & Charles Carrigan

March 13, 2017

So far, President Trump has provided few details about his approach to his most important job as president: reducing the risks of unconstrained global nuclear competition…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

North Korea Is Practicing for Nuclear War

By Jeffrey Lewis

March 12, 2017

On Monday morning, North Korea launched four missiles from the northwest corner of the country that traveled 620 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan. While…

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Measured Progress on Nuclear Security

March 25, 2014

Although the summit meeting was overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine, 53 international leaders in The Hague this week made important progress on securing nuclear…

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Imagine World Without Nuclear Weapons

By Desmond Tutu

February 14, 2014

In February 1990, the same month that Nelson Mandela, also known as Madiba, walked free after 27 years behind bars, South Africa’s then-President, Frederik…

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Are New Nuclear Weapons Affordable?

By Joe Cirincione

December 21, 2013

A stunning new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the government will spend $355 billion over the next 10 years directly on nuclear weapons….

Why Nuclear Weapons Don’t Spread (Quickly)

Why Nuclear Weapons Don’t Spread (Quickly)

By Zachary Keck

December 3, 2013

Over at Foreign Policy, David Kenner has an interesting piece on how President Barack Obama’s views on nuclear weapons are shaping his approach to the Middle East…

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Kazakhstan’s lesson for Iran

By John Rash

November 30, 2013

Due to the diplomatic deal reached in Geneva, the theocracy running Iran has half a year to decide if its potential nuclear-weapons program would make the regime…

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Why Netanyahu is wrong about Iran nuclear deal

By Matthew Bunn

November 26, 2013

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that this weekend’s nuclear deal with Iran increases Iran’s chances of building nuclear weapons. He’s exactly…

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Obama’s Upside-Down Nuclear Weapons Policy

By Elliott Negin

October 18, 2013

At the same time President Obama has been pressing for further reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)–a…

US, Britain must rethink nuclear strategy.

US, Britain must rethink nuclear strategy

By Jeremy Greenstock & Thomas R. Pickering

September 22, 2013

The recent British parliamentary decision against military action in Syria sparked a cascade of media headlines about the demise of the US-UK “special relationship.”…