Nuclear Weapons

Ploughshares Fund · Reproductive Rights and Nuclear Weapons After almost fifty years of protection, the federal right to abortion was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. The June 24...

Arms control has been a feature of the U.S.-Russia nuclear balance now for the past half century, starting with the SALT agreements in 1972 and then the START agreements in...

The number of explicit Russian nuclear threats to NATO following the Russian invasion of Ukraine has now reached nearly three dozen. The threats have been both against the United States...

For more than half a century, one of the United States’ grand strategic missions has been to inhibit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. This strategic mission has been successful to...

Ploughshares Fund · Lifelines We are over two years into a global pandemic and regulations and guidance have remained anything but consistent as we oscillate between surges and lulls in...

You can add one more thing to all of the uncertainties and causes of concern in twenty-first-century life: countries are spending more on nuclear weapons.  That’s according to the latest...

At an international security conference in Singapore on June 12, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida bemoaned China’s secrecy about its nuclear weapons buildup. His comments came only weeks after Secretary...

Anxieties about the dangers inherent in nuclear weapons were the defining feature of the Cold War era. On the negative side, the entire period was characterized by acute fears that...

The U.S. Navy has zeroed out the budget line for its previous plans to develop a new, nuclear-capable sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N), a non-strategic nuclear weapon that was first called...

When it comes to the possible use of nuclear weapons or efforts to defend against an incoming nuclear attack, it is challenging to think of anything more significant than the...

There are important new developments within the nuclear abolition and disarmament community, largely in reaction to Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Moscow’s repeated threats to use nuclear weapons should...

Given the age of the existing Minuteman III system, the Air Force’s evolving Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) can’t be ready soon enough. This is perhaps one reason...