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President Donald Trump's missile defense executive order calls for a new architecture for homeland ballistic and cruise missile defense and outlines a policy shift toward defending or deterring “any foreign aerial attack on the Homeland.”
Trump and Putin talk Ukraine while strategic arms control remains off the agenda, U.S. allies weigh their nuclear options, the Ban Treaty states meet in New York, and Los Alamos opens environmental impact study for comments.
U.S. Sanctions Russian Operator at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
Biden Loosens Missile Technology Export Controls
The moribund process offers the best tool for reviving the international arms control regime.
A military aide carrying the satchel with the nuclear codes has been in presidential entourages since the late 1950s. Now, the football follows President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a return to maximum pressure on Iran but reiterated support for a nuclear deal.
The president signaled interest in “denuclearization” with Russia and China, but Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and other differences are a challenge to talks.
A U.S. presidential executive order is expanding missile defense efforts, signaling a fundamental shift in missile defense policy.
The cabinet of political allies will advise on nuclear policy issues.
The Trump administration reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to total North Korean denuclearization; Pyongyang said the goal is impossible.
Hundreds of workers who maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal were fired as part of a Trump administration purge of federal workers.
Lawsuit Forces U.S. To Review Nuclear Plans
It has been barely a month since Inauguration Day, but U.S. President Donald Trump is already moving to reshape longstanding foreign policy, radically alter relationships with the nation’s closest allies, and upend its role as a bulwark against an expansionist, authoritarian Russia.
Congress should support H.Res. 100 and S.Res. 61, which calls for a freeze on U.S. and Russian deployed warheads beyond New START, condemns nuclear threats by all nations, and urges efforts to engage in nuclear arms control diplomacy bilaterally with Russia and bilaterally with China.