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Experts Adam Scheinman, Ulrich Kühn, and Toby Dalton weigh in.

Given the stakes for global safety and security, defenders of the NPT will need to insulate the treaty and shore up support.

There is an acute feeling that time is running out—that this is Europe’s last chance to stand on its own feet militarily.

Some of the disruption could lead to arms control talks with China or a nuclear agreement with North Korea but it could also drive South Korea or Japan to acquire nuclear weapons.

Trump administration officials have sent mixed messages about U.S. objectives for a nuclear deal with Tehran. 

Air Force generals want the United States to acquire 145 B-21s instead of a planned 100 bombers.

But nominee Brandon Williams noted that a decision to resume explosive nuclear testing would be “above [his] pay grade.”

The president did not provide details regarding his approach to addressing the nuclear threat posed by Pyongyang.

Since Russia and the United States agreed 15 years ago to modest nuclear reductions under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), they also have embarked on extraordinarily expensive campaigns to replace and modernize every component of their respective nuclear arsenals to maintain force levels and provide the option to build up.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said he told Iran’s supreme leader, “I hope you’re going 
to negotiate…” 

During the high-stakes, February 28 Oval Office meeting when U.S. President Donald Trump tried to bully Volodymyr Zelenskyy into accepting a pro-Kremlin formula for ending the war in Ukraine, he accused the Ukrainian president of not wanting peace, and claimed he was “gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III.”

A continuing resolution to fund the federal government through Sept. 30 will shift $185 million from the nonproliferation programs to weapons activities.