Country Resources

July 11, 2025

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.

July 11, 2025

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.

July 11, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump claims that Israeli and U.S. strikes “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program but other experts were more cautious.

July 11, 2025

New programs and accelerated funding would increase Pentagon spending on nuclear forces to $62 billion in the Trump administration’s 2026 defense budget request.

July 11, 2025

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.

July 11, 2025

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.

July 11, 2025

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.

June 11, 2025

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.

June 10, 2025

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.

June 1, 2025

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.

June 1, 2025

Pursuing the fantasy of national missile defense will cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars and will not work as intended.

June 1, 2025

At the age of 24, Garwin, a physicist, designed the 1952 Ivy-Mike nuclear explosion test that ushered in the first hydrogen bombs. 

June 1, 2025

The agency is accepting public comments until July 14 on the impact of plans to produce plutonium pits at the Savannah River Site.

June 1, 2025

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. 

June 1, 2025

The Trump administration’s plan to reach that total has left some congressional defense leaders dissatisfied.