Would a nuclear Iran mean the end of Israel's policy of nuclear opacity?
President Obama's goal to secure vulnerable nuclear weapons around the world demands not only a heftier security budget, but new policy initiatives to frame the mission.
Building a new facility to expand the U.S. capacity to make plutonium pits for nuclear warheads would be expensive, unsafe, and completely unnecessary.
President Obama has committed the United States to a vital goal--securing vulnerable nuclear materials worldwide--but funding has fallen far short of the levels required to achieve it.
Iran's enrichment to higher concentrations is currently neither a serious bid to manufacture fuel for its research reactor, nor a breakthrough toward a nuclear weapon. It is an effort to gain political leverage.
The Obama administration’s recent Nuclear Posture Review envisions a big role for missile defense in U.S. deterrent strategy--a misguided and dangerous notion.
India's peculiar and often paradoxical approach to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has long been a roadblock to nonproliferation efforts. Yet recent signs indicate that New Delhi may be reconsidering its position.
Anyone who thought that President Barack Obama's commitment to disarmament was a sign of U.S. weakness should read his administration's powerful new Nuclear Posture Review.
It took nearly a year of protracted negotiations for Washington and Moscow to reach consensus on a follow-on agreement to START. But is the toughest fight--Senate ratification--still to come?
A new conservative German government has thrown the country's nuclear power phaseout into doubt. But it's unclear just how long a reprieve its reactors will be given.
Some who oppose new disarmament goals argue that Washington is dozing while other nuclear powers modernize their forces, threatening to surpass U.S. capabilities. Here's why they're wrong.
Despite the well-known relationship between climate change and health, WHO has been only tangentially involved in major international climate efforts--a situation that must change.
Although the economic crisis has diminished chances of a widespread nuclear renaissance, concerns remain that countries interested in nuclear energy could push wary neighbors toward nuclear weapons.
An in-depth look at Iran's recently exposed secret fuel enrichment plant raises questions over intent and whether similar facilities will be discovered in the future.
Washington eventually will need to reassess its deployment of nuclear weapons in Turkey, but removing the weapons while maintaining positive relations with Ankara will take careful diplomacy.
Intelligence seems to suggest that Kim Jong-il's 26-year-old youngest son has been tapped as his successor, adding another layer of complexity to the already complicated North Korean nuclear situation.
When Soviet scientist Vladimir Pasechnik defected to Britain in 1989, he confirmed what the West had long suspected about Moscow's secret bioweapon efforts.
Even taken together, today's international governance organizations aren't capable of addressing the changing climate. The necessary step toward rectifying this problem: a new financial architecture that supports both adaptation and mitigation strategies.