U.S. Nuclear Weapons
Strategic Policy
Important Documents
The
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at a Glance (INF)
February 2008
What are Nuclear Weapons For? Recommendations for Restructuring U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces
By Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, October 2007
Report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead
JASON, September 7, 2007
Delegation Stand on Missiles Criticized
The Great Falls Tribune Op-Ed, October 29, 2005
New
Nuclear Policies, New Weapons, New Dangers
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ACA Issue Brief ,
April 2003.
Strategic
Offensive Reductions Treaty and Joint Statement
May 24, 2002
U.S.-Soviet/Russian
Nuclear Arms Control
ACT Factfile, June 2002.
ACT News Articles
2008
Hill Reviews Defense Policies; Nixes Warhead
January/February 2008
2007
Nuclear Weapons Alert Status Debated
December 2007.
Nuke Overflight Probes Continue
November 2007.
U.S. Nuke Dismantlement Tops Goal for Year
November 2007.
Congress, Pentagon Probe Nuke Overflight
October 2007.
U.S. Pledges Cuts in Plutonium Stockpile
October 2007.
U.S. Nuke Dismantlement: Modest Uptick
October 2007.
U.S. Begins Trimming ICBM Fleet
September 2007.
U.S. Cuts Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
September 2007.
2006
Congress Approves Iran, NK Measures
November 2006.
Pentagon Seeks Strategic Arms Shifts
March 2006.
2005
Lawmakers Want to Retain ICBM Force
November 2005.
U.S. Retires MX Missile
October 2005.
Deeper Nuclear Cuts Unlikely For Now
July/August 2005.
Belgium, Germany Question U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe
July/August 2005.
U.S. Weighing Nuclear Stockpile Changes
May 2005.
Nuclear Bunker Buster Revived
March 2005.
U.S.-Russian Nuclear Rivalry Lingers
January/February 2005.
2004
Congress Axes Funding For New Nukes
December 2004.
The Politics of Arms Control in the Second Bush Term
December 2004.
Bush, Kerry Square Off on Arms Control
October 2004.
UK, U.S. Set to Extend Nuclear Pact
September 2004.
Bush Plans to Cut Atomic Arsenal
July/August 2004.
New Life for the MX Missile?
May 2004.
Last
Nuclear Artillery Shell in U.S. Stockpile Dismantled
January/February 2004.
2003
Defense
Science Board Calls for New Nuclear Weapons Capabilities
November 2003.
Congress
Approves Research on New Nuclear Weapons
June 2003.
New
NNSA Head Appointed Amid Controversy
June 2003.
U.S.
Issued Warning on Threat of Possible Iraqi WMD Use
May 2003.
Senate
Endorses Nuclear Reductions Treaty; Duma Delays
April 2003.
Nuclear
Weapons Activity Surges in Energy Department Budget
March 2003.
U.S.,
Russian Legislatures Take Up SORT Ratification
March 2003.
Bush Administration
Releases Strategy on WMD Threat
January/February 2003.
2002
No
Movement on Strategic Reductions Treaty
November 2002.
U.S.
Begins Trimming Nuclear Forces
November 2002.
Senate
Reviews U.S.-Russian Nuclear Reductions Treaty
September 2002.
New
Nuclear Accord Submitted to U.S., Russian Lawmakers
July/August 2002.
U.S.,
Russia Sign Treaty Cutting Deployed Nuclear Forces
June 2002.
U.S.,
Russia Issue Statement on Strategic Cooperation
June 2002.
U.S.
and Russia at Odds Over Strategic Reductions Agreement
May 2002.
Nuclear
Posture Review Leaks; Outlines Targets, Contingencies
April 2002.
Energy
Department to Study Modifying Nuclear Weapons
April 2002.
Bush
Endorses Legally Binding Nuclear Arms Deal With Russia
April 2002.
U.S.,
Russia Agree to Codify Nuclear Reductions
March 2002.
Bush
Administration Reaffirms Negative Security Assurances
March 2002.
Democrats
Criticize Nuclear Posture Review
March 2002.
Nuclear
Posture Review Released, Stresses Flexible Force Planning
January/February 2002.
Report
Says U.S. Studying New Nuclear Capabilities
January/February 2002.
U.S.,
Russia to Discuss Strategic Reductions
January/February 2002
Defense
Act Repeals Restriction on Nuclear Cuts
January/February 2002.
2001
Bush,
Putin Pledge Nuclear Cuts; Implementation Unclear
December 2001.
Bill
Aims to Lift Nuclear Reductions Restriction
October 2001.
Outgoing Nuclear
Chief Counsels Caution on Strategic Reductions
September 2001.
Pentagon
Prepares Modest Cutbacks in Nuclear Arsenal
July/August 2001.
Senate
Narrowly Confirms Bolton To Top Arms Control Post
June 2001.
2000
Defense Bill Bars Unilateral
Nuclear Reductions, Orders Posture Review
November 2000.
1990s
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Approves Holum
June 1999.
Clinton Issues New Guidelines
on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Doctrine
November/December 1997.
ACT Feature
Articles
2006
The 1986 Reykjavik Summit
September 2006
Strategic Decisions: An Interview with STRATCOM Commander General James E. Cartwright
June 2006
LOOKING BACK: The Limits of Limited Nuclear War
January/February 2006
2005
BOOK REVIEW: The Muddle of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Strategy
October 2005
Is U.S. Reprocessing Worth the Risk?
September 2005
The Role of U.S. Nuclear Weapons: New Doctrine Falls Short of Bush Pledge
September 2005
Is There a Role for Nuclear Weapons Today?
July/August 2005
A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes
July/August 2005
Book Review: A Tragic Life: Oppenheimer and the Bomb
July/August 2005
Leonard S. Spector and Aubrie Ohlde,
Negative Security Assurances: Revisiting the Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Option
April 2005.
2004
Paul S. Boyer
Looking Back: Dr. Strangelove at 40: The Continuing Relevance of a Cold War Cultural Icon
December 2004.
Miles A. Pomper
In Memoriam: Paul H. Nitze
December 2004.
Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen
What's Behind Bush's Nuclear Cuts?
October 2004.
Damien J. LaVera
Looking Back: The U.S. Senate Vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
October 2004.
Daryl G. Kimball
The Mixed Arms Control Legacy of Ronald Reagan
July/August 2004.
Steven Kull
Survey Says: Americans Back
Arms Control
June 2004.
2003
Sidney Drell, James Goodby, Raymond Jeanloz, and Robert Peurifoy,
A
Strategic Choice: New Bunker Busters Versus Nonproliferation
March 2003.
John M. Spratt, Jr.,
Stopping
a Dangerous Drift in U.S. Arms Control Policy
March 2003.
John Steinbruner,
Confusing
Ends and Means:
The Doctrine of Coercive Pre-emption
January/February 2003.
Joanne Tompkins,
How
U.S. Strategic Policy Is
Changing China’s Nuclear Plans
January/February 2003.
2002
ACA News Analysis,
The
Jury Is Still Out
June 2002.
John Holum,
Assessing
the New U.S.-Russian Pact
June 2002.
Alistair Millar
The
Pressing Need for Tactical Nuclear Weapons Control
May 2002.
An Interview With John Bolton
Expounding
Bush’s Approach to U.S. Nuclear Security
March 2002.
An ACA Panel Discussion With Daryl G. Kimball, Janne E. Nolan,
Rose Gottemoeller, and Morton H. Halperin
Parsing
the Nuclear Posture Review
March 2002.
2001
Hans M. Kristensen
The
Unruly Hedge: Cold War Thinking at the Crawford Summit
December 2001.
Joseph Cirincione and Jon B. Wolfstahl,
What
If the New Strategic Framework Goes Bad?
November 2001.
Lawrence J. Korb and Alex Tiersky,
The
End of Unilateralism? Arms Control After September 11
October 2001.
John Parachini,
Non-Proliferation
Policy and the War on Terrorism
October 2001.
Rose Gottemoeller,
Offense,
Defense, and Unilateralism in Strategic Arms Control
September 2001.
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky,
The
Continuing Impact of the Nuclear Revolution
June 2001.
Robert Kerrey and William D. Hartung
Toward a New Nuclear Posture:
Challenges for the Bush Administration
April 2001.
2000
Janne Nolan
Preparing for the 2001 Nuclear
Posture Review
November 2000.
Lawrence Freedman
Does Deterrence Have a Future?
October 2000.
Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore
Presidential Election Forum:
The Candidates on Arms Control
September 2000.
1999
John D. Holum
The Arms Control Agenda After
ACDA
March 1999.
1998
John Isaacs
Arms Control in 1998: Congress
Maintains the Status Quo
October 1998.
ACT Editorial
Focus
Daryl G. Kimball
Transforming U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
January/February 2008.
Daryl G. Kimball
"Completely Nuts"
June 2006.
Daryl G. Kimball
Of Madmen and Nukes
November 2005.
Daryl G. Kimball
Replacement Nuclear Warheads? Buyers Beware
May 2005.
Daryl G. Kimball
Nonproliferation Through Disarmament
January/February 2005.
Daryl G. Kimball,
Nuclear Checks and Balances
December 2004.
Daryl G. Kimball,
Obsolete Relics of a Dead Conflict
November 2004.
Daryl G. Kimball,
Do
As I Say, Not As I Do,
July/August 2002.
Daryl G. Kimball,
A
Beginning, Not an End
June 2002.
Daryl G. Kimball
Name-Calling
or Nonproliferation?
March 2002.
Daryl G. Kimball
New
Strategic Experiment
January/February 2002.
Daryl G. Kimball
Fuzzy
Nuclear Math
December 2001.
Daryl G. Kimball
Will
Prudence Prevail?
November 2001.
Daryl G. Kimball
Arms
Control and the New 'War'
October 2001.
Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.
The First 100 Days
May 2001.
Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.
'Not with a bang but a whimper'
October 1998.
Weapons Research & Development
Key Documents
Replacement Warheads and the Nuclear Test Ban
Analysis by Daryl Kimball for Defense News
March 8, 2007
Nuclear Bunker-Buster (As We Know It) Is Dead
Analysis by Daryl Kimball
October 26, 2005.
ACT News Articles
2008
Hill Reviews Defense Policies; Nixes Warhead
January/February 2008
2007
Panel Questions Warhead Concept Plausibility
November 2007.
Lawmakers Knock New Warhead Report
September 2007.
New Nuclear Designs, New Questions
January/February 2007.
2006
Lawmakers Mixed on Nuclear Funding
September 2006.
Global Strike Plan Bombs in Congress
September 2006.
Warhead Initiative Looms Large in NNSA Plans
March 2006.
Defense Bills Passed, Nuclear Questions Raised
January/February 2006.
2005
Congress Cuts Nuclear Bunker Buster Again
December 2005.
The Role of U.S. Nuclear Weapons: New Doctrine Falls Short of Bush Pledge
September 2005.
Bunker Buster Future Uncertain
July/August 2005.
U.S. Weighing Nuclear Stockpile Changes
May 2005.
Nuclear Bunker Buster Revived
March 2005.
2004
Congress Axes Funding For New Nukes
December 2004.
Hill Passes Defense Authorization Bill
November 2004.
Pentagon Gets $416 Billion From Congress
September 2004.
Congress Backs Bush's Defense Budget
July/August 2004.
After Long Delay, Energy
Department Releases Weapons Advisory Committee Report
May 2004.
2003
Congress Authorizes
New Weapons Research
December 2003.
Bush Sends IAEA
Legislation to Hill; Pentagon Objections Overcome
December 2003.
U.S.
Requests License for Plutonium Shipment to France
November 2003.
Defense
Science Board Calls for New Nuclear Weapons Capabilities
November 2003.
U.S.
Civilian Nuclear Reactor to Produce Weapons Material
November 2003.
Senate Okays
Funds for Nuclear Weapons Research
October 2003.
Congress
Approves Research on New Nuclear Weapons
June 2003.
New
NNSA Head Appointed Amid Controversy
June 2003.
U.S.
Produces First Plutonium Pit Since 1989
May 2003.
Administration
Seeks Repeal of Ban on Nuclear Weapon Research
April 2003.
2002
Nuclear
Test Readiness at Risk, DOE Reports
October 2002.
Court Ruling Allows Plutonium Shipments to South Carolina
July/August 2002.
DOE,
South Carolina Deadlocked Over Plutonium Shipments
May 2002.
Energy
Department to Study Modifying Nuclear Weapons
April 2002.
Concerns
Raised About Stockpile Stewardship
January/February 2002.
2000
DOE Authorizes Restructuring
of Lab Contracts
December 2000.
DOE
Simulates Nuclear Explosion; GAO Faults Ignition Facility
September 2000.
New DOE Nuclear Security
Organization Begins Work
April 2000.
1990s
Departments of Defense,
Energy Open Centers in Russia; Y2K Facility Testing Completed
November 1999.
Congress Approves DOE
Reorganization; Clinton Leaves Control With Energy Secretary
September/October 1999.
DOE Plans to Obtain Tritium
from Existing Civilian Reactors
November/December 1998.
Pena to Step Down as Energy
Secretary
April 1998.
DOE Conducts Thrid
Subcritical Experiment
March 1998.
DOE Conducts 'Subcritical'
Nuclear Test
June/July 1997.
ACT Feature
Articles
ACT Interview
Strategic Decisions: An Interview with STRATCOM Commander General James E. Cartwright
June 2006
Peter J. Kuznick
BOOK REVIEW: A Tragic Life: Oppenheimer and The Bomb
July/August 2005.
Arjun Makhijani
A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes
July/August 2005.
Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen
What's Behind Bush's Nuclear Cuts?
October 2004.
Steve Fetter and Frank von Hippel
Does the United
States Need a New Plutonium-Pit Facility
May 2004.
Christopher Paine
Coddling the Nuclear Weapons
Complex
May 2004.
The
Bush Administration's Views on the Future of Nuclear Weapons:
An Interview with NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks
January/February 2004.
Oleg Bukharin,
A
Breakdown of Breakout: U.S. and Russian Warhead Production Capabilities
October 2002.
ACT Editorial Focus
Daryl G. Kimball
New Reasons to Reject New Warheads
January/February 2007.
Daryl G. Kimball
Replacement Nuclear Warheads? Buyers Beware
May 2005.
Daryl G. Kimball
Nuclear Checks and Balances
December 2004.
Security at U.S.
Weapons Laboratories
Important Briefs and
Documents
Science at Its Best, Security
at Its Worst
Rudman Report on DOE Security, June 1999.
The An Introduction to
the Cox Report
ACT, April/May 1999.
Cox Report Overview
ACT, April/May 1999.
Nuclear Weapons-Related
recommendations of the Cox Committee
ACT, April/May 1999.
Key Findings of the Intelligence
Community Damage Assessment
ACT, April/May 1999.
Introductory Note from
the Damage Assessment Review Panel
ACT, April/May 1999.
ACT New Articles
Foreign Visits to
U.S. Nuclear Labs to Resume
October 2000.
'Rudman Report' Adds Fuel
to DOE Reorganization Fire
June 1999.
Cox Panel Charges China
With Extensive Nuclear Espionage
April/May 1999.
ACT Feature
Articles
Arjun Makhijani
A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes
July/August 2005.
Representative John M. Spratt, Jr.
Keep the Facts of the Cox
Report in Perspective
April/May 1999.
Jonathan D. Pollack
The Cox Report's 'Dirty Little
Secret'
April/May 1999.
Richard L. Garwin
Why China Won't Build U.S.
Warheads
April/May 1999.
Latest Los Alamos
Security Debacle Prompts Hearings on DOE
July/August 2000.
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