VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- An LGM-30 Minuteman III missile soars in the air after a test launch. The Minuteman is a strategic weapon system using a ballistic missile of intercontinental range. (U.S. Air Force photo)

By Greg Thielmann

The White House announced yesterday that the President has submitted the Protocols to the African and the South Pacific Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaties to the U.S. Senate for advice and consent to ratification.

By Daryl G. Kimball

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has just released a new video and blogpost on the role of their supercomputers in the nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program--a role that has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 15 years or so.

By Daryl G.

By Tom Z. Collina

The Washington Post's editors are reinforcing the Iranian government's narrative with respect to Tehran's nuclear program.

By Alfred Nurja

Alan Eyre

By Jeff Abramson

In a live broadcast at 11:30 this morning, the State Department will release its annual human rights report. Among many hopes of what will become of this important yearly assessment, one is that it will spur an examination of U.S. arms transfer policies .

By Xiaodon Liang

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh (Image Source: Government of Yemen)

President Obama in 2009 at Hradcany Square Prague, Czech Republic (Image Source Christian Science Monitor)