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May 1, 2019
Smart U.S. leadership is an essential part of the nuclear risk reduction equation.
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May 1, 2019
Senator Van Hollen argues against unrestrained nuclear weapon spending.
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May 1, 2019
Trump to revoke U.S. signature of treaty regulating international trade of conventional weapons.
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May 1, 2019
Administration opens door to negotiations on new weapons, new partners.
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May 1, 2019
The Missile Defense Agency declares success after first-of-its-kind missile defense test.
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May 1, 2019
Lawmakers pursue several avenues to get more information on Trump administration efforts to promote nuclear trade with Saudi Arabia.
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April 29, 2019
Failure to grant the sanctions waivers detailed in the 2015 Iran nucelar deal would jeopardize U.S. nonproliferation priorities and increases the risk that the nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will collapse.
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April 19, 2019North Korea tests a new tactical weapon and continues to engage in sophisticated methods of sanctions evasion, according to the most recent reports. As both Washington and Pyongyang say changes must precede any third summit between the two countries, a meeting between Putin and Kim is expected by the end of this month.
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April 12, 2019Executive director Daryl Kimball reports on the public statement from distinguished U.S. and Russian experts calling on U.S. and Russian officials to get back to the arms control negotiating table, with the first order of business being agreement on a five-year extension of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
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April 10, 2019The United States currently plans to spend nearly $500 billion to maintain and replace its nuclear arsenal over the next decade. This report describes the ways in which this level of spending is unnecessary, unsustainable, and unsafe. It describes three realistic options to reduce spending on nuclear weapons and recommends steps Congress can take to adjust the programs to deal with the long term budget challenges.
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April 1, 2019
Fifty years ago, shortly after the conclusion of the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States and the Soviet Union launched the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Negotiated in the midst of severe tensions, the SALT agreement and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty were the first restrictions on the superpowers’ massive strategic offensive weapons, as well as on their emerging strategic defensive systems. The SALT agreement and the ABM Treaty slowed the arms race and opened a period of U.S.-Soviet detente that lessened the threat of nuclear war.
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April 1, 2019
Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) discusses congressional oversight of U.S. nuclear commerce and his concerns about providing U.S. nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.
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April 1, 2019
U.S. and Russian officials see no quick and easy extension to New START.
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April 1, 2019
Treaty-prohibited missiles to be tested after INF Treaty termination.
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April 1, 2019
Pentagon asks for big increase to develop orbiting missile defenses.