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October 1, 2020
Financial difficulties among the nuclear test ban treaty’s states-parties are complicating efforts to select the next leader of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization.
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September 21, 2020
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September 3, 2020
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September 1, 2020
Trump administration interest in nuclear testing has spurred lawmakers to address the issue in a major military spending bill and policy.
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July 28, 2020
Seventy-five years ago, the nuclear age began with the world's first nuclear weapons test explosion in the New Mexico desert. In this annotated "silent film"-style video essay from the Arms Control Association, we learn about the events that transpired three weeks later with the atomic attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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July 19, 2020
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July 19, 2020
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July 18, 2020
An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would prohibit funding for a demonstration nuclear test explosion being considered by senior Trump officials for political signaling purposes in future arms control talks with Russia and China.
UPDATE: A good win for nuclear sanity in the House! Learn what happens next...
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July 1, 2020
Seventy-five years ago, on July 16, the United States detonated the world’s first nuclear weapons test explosion in the New Mexican desert. Just three weeks later, U.S. Air Force B-29 bombers executed surprise atomic bomb attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing at least 214,000 people by the end of 1945, and injuring untold thousands more who died in the years afterward.
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July 1, 2020
U.S. lawmakers and international officials have criticized the Trump administration’s consideration of restarting nuclear testing.