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March 1, 2023
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February 9, 2023
U.S. determines Russian noncompliant with New START due to ongoing on-site inspections suspension and refusal to reschedule a required treaty meeting. Pentagon estimates Chinese nuclear arsenal climbs above 400.
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September 8, 2022
The United States and Russia agree to language supporting arms control talks on a successor to New START at the 10th review conference for the NPT. Moscow temporarily pauses New START on-site inspections. Washington sees no possibility of imminent Russian nuclear use.
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May 1, 2022
Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are expanding the focus of their partnership to the development of advanced hypersonics.
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January 11, 2022
On Jan. 3, the leaders of the five nuclear-armed members of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) issued a rare joint statement on preventing nuclear war in which they affirmed, for the first time, the 1985 Reagan-Gorbachev maxim that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
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January 11, 2022
The United Kingdom and the United States may now share naval nuclear propulsion information with Australia.
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December 1, 2021
Last month, the UN First Committee, responsible for international security, approved a compromise resolution that sets into motion a new open-ended working group to develop rules of the road for military activities in space.
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November 1, 2021
Twenty-six years ago, at the 1995 review conference on the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the future of the treaty was not asssured. But the states-parties committed to the “complete elimination of nuclear weapons” and endorsed specific disarmament actions that led to the indefinite extension of this treaty. But since at least 2010, the nuclear disarmament process has stalled, and the NPT regime is once again at a crossroads.
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November 1, 2021
From an Australian perspective, there are lots of questions to be answered about the Australia-UK-U.S. submarine deal.
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November 1, 2021
The proposed AUKUS submarine plan would set a precedent of a nuclear-weapon state selling nuclear submarines to a non-weapon state. The use of highly enriched uranium (HEU) fuel is especially troublesome.
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October 1, 2021
The controversial deal is designed to counter a more assertive China but many worry it could also weaken nonproliferation norms.
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April 1, 2021
In recent years, the United Kingdom has touted itself as one of the most transparent of the five nuclear-armed states recognized by the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), and its leaders leaned heavily on the fact that it was reducing the size of its nuclear force.
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April 1, 2021
A new defense policy review results in raising warhead ceiling by 44 percent.
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April 1, 2021
UK Finalizes New Safeguards
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March 17, 2021
Criticism of this week's announcement by the United Kingdom on its nuclear weapons arsenal echoes the arguments of anti-nuclear, anti-colonialist leaders of an earlier era.