Environment. Strategic stability in a restructured world / Walter B. Slocombe -- Strategic arms control in the post-START era : the negotiating environment / Lawrence Freedman -- The environment for ...

Prospects for Russian–American strategic nuclear arms control seemed unfavorable in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and Russia’s later suspension of formal participation ...

Efforts to revive arms control are facing unprecedented gridlock. The collapse of landmark treaties like the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and the looming expiration of New START ...

Since Donald Trump took office, Russia has changed its position on arms control at least five times. After years of rejecting U.S. overtures for dialogue, during Trump’s first week in office, the ...

In 2023, Moscow suspended the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), withdrew from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), de-ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ...

When NewSTART (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 2010) expires on February 5, 2026, Russia and the U.S. will face the prospect of a new nuclear arms race unconstrained by bilateral agreements. Since ...

The “Baker” explosion, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, on July 25, 1946. Credit: U.S. Department of Defense. It is often forgotten that the ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has brought the risk of nuclear escalation back to the forefront of popular fears and policy concerns. With the onset of renewed great power competition ...

"For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons…. We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis," ...

WASHINGTON — The United States may have to deploy more strategic nuclear weapons in coming years to deter growing threats from Russia, China and other adversaries, a senior White House aide said on ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. Washington faces a choice: reduce the size of its nuclear force or expand and ...

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity — and occasionally the superpowers edged toward the brink, as with the Cuban missile crisis. But ...