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"I find hope in the work of long-established groups such as the Arms Control Association...[and] I find hope in younger anti-nuclear activists and the movement around the world to formally ban the bomb."

– Vincent Intondi
Author, "African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement"
July 1, 2020
United States
  • Projected Cost of U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Rises
    June 1, 2021

    The United States will spend $634 billion over the next 10 years to sustain and modernize its nuclear arsenal, up 28 percent over the last estimate, the Congressional Budget Office says.

  • New ICBM Interceptor to Cost $18 Billion
    June 1, 2021

    Amid continued questions about the future of the U.S. homeland defense mission, the cost of a new interceptor to counter North Korean and Iranian missiles could cost 36 percent more than expected.

  • U.S. Will Not Rejoin Open Skies Treaty
    June 1, 2021

    The Biden administration has officially notified Russia that the United States will not seek to rejoin the 1992 Open Skies Treaty.

  • Biden, Putin to Meet in June
    June 1, 2021

    U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on June 16 in Geneva, the two countries have announced.

  • Two of Three Missile Defense Tests Fail
    June 1, 2021

    Two out of three flight tests, which aimed to integrate the Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems, failed because of software problems, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published in April. 

  • U.S. Arms Sales to Israel Challenged
    June 1, 2021

    A proposed $735 million sale of precision-guided munitions to Israel drew intense scrutiny from Congress as fighting in that country escalated last month.

  • Russia Puts Open Skies Withdrawal Process Into Motion
    May 12, 2021
    Russia took another step closer to withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty, while the Biden administration has yet to make a decision about the future of potential U.S. participation in the accord. A summit between Presidents Biden and Putin is in the works, possibly to occur in mid-June.
  • Back From the Brink? Next Steps for Biden and Putin
    May 1, 2021

    After more than a decade of rising tensions and growing nuclear competition between the two major nuclear-weapon states, U.S. President Joe Biden has signaled he will confront Russia when necessary.

  • Inside the ICBM Lobby: Special Interests Or the National Interest?
    May 1, 2021

    Support for a new ICBM is tied closely to the money to be made developing, building, deploying and maintaining it. Yet the American public would eliminate the weapon altogether, a recent poll shows.

  • Advice From a Missile Defense Sleuth: How the Defense Department Can Fix The Troubled Weapons Program
    May 1, 2021

    Getting the rocket science correct will be important no matter which path President Joe Biden chooses for missile defense.

  • U.S. Military Debates Ground-Launched Missiles
    May 1, 2021

    A general is asking: Can the United States afford these new weapons and will allies agree to let them be based overseas?

  • U.S. Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Fails Test
    May 1, 2021

    The test vehicle was unable to complete its launch from a B-52 bomber, a setback as the Air Force hastens to make the weapon operational in fiscal year 2022.

     

  • Navy Presses Ahead With Unmanned Vessels
    May 1, 2021

    Some Pentagon officials say deploying rising numbers of uncrewed ships and planes is vital to confronting two well-armed adversaries—Russia and China—at the same time.

  • U.S. Open Skies Aircraft Destined for Scrapyard
    May 1, 2021

    The decision to scrap the planes has raised concerns that President Joe Biden may not return the United States to a treaty that his predecessor had repudiated.

  • U.S. Still Seeks Major UAE Arms Sale
    May 1, 2021

    But some Democrats in Congress have expressed concern and sought to put restrictions on the potential deals, which could total more than $20 billion.

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