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April 1, 2020
Wassenaar Nations Set New Export Controls
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March 18, 2020
The Trump administration’s excessive strategy to replace nearly the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal at roughly the same time is a ticking budget time bomb, even at historically high levels of national defense spending.
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March 13, 2020The United States continues pushing for trilateral arms control negotiations with Russia and China, but deflects questions about the future of New START, which gains additional international support. The Trump administration has yet to decide the future of the Open Skies Treaty and responds to President Putin's January proposal of a meeting with the leaders of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
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March 5, 2020On a superficial level, calls for extending the arms embargo on Iran may seem like a useful and politically expedient response to Iran’s aggressive activities in the Middle East region. But in reality, such exhortations could undermine regional security.
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March 1, 2020
Fulfilling a goal outlined in its 2018 Nuclear Posture Review report, the Trump administration acknowledged last month that the United States has deployed for the first time a low-yield nuclear warhead on some U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).
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March 1, 2020
The State Department’s head of delegation to the 2020 NPT Review Conference provides the U.S. perspective on the meeting.
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March 1, 2020
Reaffirming the principle that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought” could strengthen this year’s review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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March 1, 2020
President Trump removes limits on landmine deployments.
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March 1, 2020
The Trump administration is seeking larger increases to U.S. nuclear weapons than envisioned earlier.
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March 1, 2020
A dialogue may be advancing between the United States and Russia, but China appears unwilling to discuss any limits to its nuclear arsenal.
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March 1, 2020
The U.S. Navy has begun to field a new warhead on a U.S. ballistic missile submarine.
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March 1, 2020
A North Korean leadership shake-up may indicate a harder line on nuclear talks with the United States.
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March 1, 2020
The Trump administration is seeking to adapt existing missile defense systems to defeat longer-range targets.
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March 1, 2020
The Commerce Department will now oversee certain firearms exports
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March 1, 2020
U.S. Begins Destroying Last Batch of Sarin