Nuclear Weapons

(Editor’s Note: This is the latest in Just Security’s weekly series keeping readers up to date on developments at the United Nations at the intersection of national security,…

An extension of New START would provide the United States the time and space to negotiate a follow-on arms control accord with Russia, China, and other nuclear powers.

Any US efforts that undermine key treaties would erode the global nonproliferation regime that advances the safety of civil nuclear technologies.

How do progressive activists find agency facing a nuclear weapons complex backed by the most powerful militaries in the world? Answers may lie in the history of the struggle against…

Renewed questions over the US nuclear umbrella, NATO and a new fighter jet obscure the reality of the country's most likely options.

Almost every problem that critics say this nuclear-weapons pact doesn't solve would be aggravated if the treaty expires.

Resuming testing provides no strategic benefit and would undermine a treaty that has curbed the spread of nuclear weapons for more than 50 years.

More ambitious talks with the Russians and Chinese are a laudable goal. But they can be pursued smartly and without unnecessarily high risk.

The chances of successfully negotiating a new, complex deal including China were already slim before the coronavirus pandemic. Now, in the midst of what clearly will be an extended…

DoD now acknowledges it has deployed a new, sea-based nuclear warhead capability. But the administration’s stated rationale for the new weapon is deeply flawed, and the decision…

If President Trump actually seeks to avoid an arms race, maintain a cap on the Russian nuclear arsenal, and create the conditions for follow-on talks with Russia and new negotiations…

Some Trump administration officials have signaled hostility to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and an interest in the United States resuming nuclear weapon testing, which could…