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U.S. Nuclear Weapons

  • Reality Check: Nuclear Weapons Spending and New START
    Issue Briefs
    March 19, 2012

    Volume 3, Issue 4, March 19, 2012

    In recent weeks, a handful of Congressional Republicans have charged that the Obama administration and the Defense Department are failing to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal and weapons production complex "as promised" in 2010 during consideration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
  • Report on Nuclear Review Stirs Debate
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    The White House is “weighing options” for sharp reductions in U.S. nuclear forces as part of its study of how to implement the results of its 2010 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the Associated Press reported Feb. 14.
  • NNSA Budget Cuts Los Alamos Facility
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    The Obama administration zeroed out funding for construction of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Facility Replacement (CMRR) at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in its fiscal year 2013 budget request and announced it would delay work on the facility for at least five years.
  • NNSA Nonproliferation Budget Shifts
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is requesting $2.5 billion for its nonproliferation programs for fiscal year 2013, a figure that encompasses major increases for some programs and major cuts for others.
  • Pentagon Budget Delays New Nuclear Subs
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    Responding to budget pressures, the Department of Defense spending plan for fiscal year 2013 would delay the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine replacement program by two years.
  • Ending Cold War Nuclear Thinking
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    Within his first 100 days in office, President Barack Obama delivered a stirring address in Prague on the steps necessary to move toward a world free of nuclear weapons. On April 5, 2009, he pledged to “put an end to Cold War thinking” by “reduc[ing] the role of nuclear weapons in our national security strategy.”
  • Opponents of U.S. Nuclear Cuts: Still Being Chased by the Russian Bear?
    Issue Briefs
    February 24, 2012

    Volume 3, Issue 1, February 24, 2012

    Last week, the press reported on Defense Department options for Presidential guidance that were being prepared as part of the Nuclear Policy Review implementation study. The notion that the President might consider deep cuts in U.S. nuclear forces unleashed some intemperate reactions that brought to mind Shakespeare's most famous stage direction (in "The Winter's Tale"): "Exit, pursued by a bear."
  • Op-Ed: Start Cutting U.S. Nuclear Weapons Down To 1,000
    Press Room
    February 17, 2012

    In the 20 years since the end of the Cold War, successive U.S. and Russian presidents have gradually reduced the size and salience of their enormous nuclear stockpiles, which remain by far the largest of any country. Nevertheless, the size of each country's arsenal far exceeds what is necessary to deter nuclear attack by the other or by one of the world's other nuclear-armed states.
  • The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal and the Budget
    Press Room
    January 26, 2012

    (Washington, D.C.) At 2 p.m. today, the Pentagon is scheduled to release major budget decisions stemming from its Jan. 5 strategic guidance review, which states that: "It is possible that our deterrence goals can be achieved with a smaller nuclear force, which would reduce the number of nuclear weapons in our inventory as well as their role in U.S. national security strategy."
  • Op-Ed: How Obama can slash defense budget: Cut unnecessary nuclear weapons programs
    Press Room
    January 20, 2012

    By Daryl G. Kimball and Tom Z. Collina

    The following piece was originally published in The Christian Science Monitor on January 19, 2012.

    In order to reach its goal of at least $480 billion in Pentagon savings over the next decade, the Obama administration must scale back previous schemes for a new generation of strategic nuclear weapons delivery systems.