The Trump administration is seeking to cut funds to cooperative threat reduction activities by 36 percent.
Court Ends Final Bid to Save MOX Program
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.
The Trump administration is seeking larger increases to U.S. nuclear weapons than envisioned earlier.
The Trump administration is seeking to adapt existing missile defense systems to defeat longer-range targets.
Not much time remains for extending New START, says Russia. The United States has yet to issue a decision regarding the future of the accord, while administration officials give conflicting remarks about bringing in China to an arms control agreement. The United States and Russia met in Vienna in January to talk about strategic security.
Republicans rejected many House Democratic efforts to limit U.S. nuclear weapons spending.
NRC Will Not Require Drone Defenses
Washington hopes to include China in future nuclear arms control talks.
News emerges that the Trump administration may withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty by the end of October. Plus, NATO rejects a proposal from Russia regarding a moratorium on INF range missiles, the State Department releases new data on New START, and the United States confirms the cause of the August explosion in Russia.