“What's really strikes me about ACA is the potential to shape the next generation of leaders on arms control and nuclear policy. This is something I witnessed firsthand as someone who was introduced to the field through ACA.”
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Sherman, the former U.S. deputy secretary of state, says “we must persist” in pursuing a diplomatic solution to the impasse over Iran’s nuclear program.
With no serious bilateral escalation control mechanisms on the horizon, the United States and other third parties will remain critical to South Asian crisis stability.
U.S. President Donald Trump claims that Israeli and U.S. strikes “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program but other experts were more cautious.
New programs and accelerated funding would increase Pentagon spending on nuclear forces to $62 billion in the Trump administration’s 2026 defense budget request.
The U.S. Department of Energy wants to increase funding for the W93 submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead while scaling back the W87-1 intercontinental ballistic missile warhead.
It took two years for House Republican leaders to agree to extend and expand an expired law that will help many downwinders exposed to the fallout from U.S. nuclear testing and certain uranium miners.
The Mexican government brought the action over concerns about gun violence and the surge of weapons imported from the United States that benefit Mexican gun cartels.
To reach an effective non-proliferation deal with Iran, the U.S must abandon zero enrichment of uranium as a requirement. Unless Trump is willing to show more flexibility and realism regarding the future of Iran’s nuclear activities, the United States will miss another opportunity to address Iran's growing proliferation risk.
An examination of recent cost estimates for space-based interceptor constellations highlights the key questions that need to be asked of the Trump administration's Golden Dome missile defense program.
Nuclear and defense strategists have long understood that the developing and deploying of strategic missile interceptors is ineffective against determined nuclear-armed adversaries because it could lead them to build more numerous and sophisticated offensive missile systems—at a relatively lower cost and more quickly—to overwhelm and evade missile defenses.
Pursuing the fantasy of national missile defense will cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars and will not work as intended.
At the age of 24, Garwin, a physicist, designed the 1952 Ivy-Mike nuclear explosion test that ushered in the first hydrogen bombs.
The agency is accepting public comments until July 14 on the impact of plans to produce plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site.
Some U.S. officials say the plan likely will reduce the capacity of the government to deal with the broad range of arms control and disarmament challenges.
The Trump administration’s plan to reach that total has left some congressional defense leaders dissatisfied.