The outlook for nuclear arms control is desolate in all three of its dimensions – risk reduction, non-proliferation and outright elimination. The important agreements of the past are dead or on life ...

For the second time in recent days, President Trump declared that one of the key objectives of the war had been accomplished. By David E. Sanger David E. Sanger has covered five U.S. presidents, and ...

Beijing’s rising nuclear power and anti-use stance are helping temper Russia’s nuclear threats in its war against Ukraine.

When President Trump withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2018, he cracked the brittle foundation of the global nonproliferation regime based on the 1970 ...

How many nuclear weapons is enough? The question has haunted policymakers and scholars for 80 years. Early in the Cold War, the United States expanded its nuclear arsenal rapidly in response to the ...

Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons. Arms control agreements painstakingly built over decades have collapsed. Geopolitical competition is intensifying rivalries between nuclear-armed powers.

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The U.S. is producing nuclear weapons at levels not seen since the Cold War, Energy Secretary Chris Wright told lawmakers Thursday, as officials warned of a rapidly expanding Chinese arsenal and ...

Canadians are openly discussing the merits and risks of pursuing a nuclear weapon. Europeans are similarly considering a nuclear deterrent for the bloc. In South Korea, public support for a nuclear ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Henry Kissinger often said that nuclear arms are “weapons in search of a doctrine.” After the Cold War ...