Nuclear Weapons

Leaders from the United States and China sit around a conference table with documents, flowers, and flags, engaging in a formal discussion.

Trump and Xi agreed on “strategic stability.” They now need to decide what it means

By Tong Zhao | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A man in a suit stands at a podium on stage, facing an audience, with two teleprompters in front of him and stage lights shining above.

The US acknowledged its space weapons. Now it must build guardrails

By Mallory Stewart | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons

Satellite images show covered structures at Hami, Yumen, and Jilantai in China, labeled as suspected missile silo fields and a missile training site, with coordinates and dates listed for each location.

Here’s why China acknowledged its new missile silos in a documentary

By Robert Rust | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A control room with empty chairs, large screens showing airplanes, and a radar-like red concentric circle pattern overlaying the image.

Pentagon’s secret plan: Reviving Cold War doctrines to lower the threshold for nuclear war

By Joe Cirincione | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A large, black military submarine is partially submerged and moving through calm waters under a cloudy sky.

Indian nuclear weapons, 2026

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, Mackenzie Knight-Boyle | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

A digital rendering of Earth shows gold geometric shapes dispersing from one side, while a gold mesh grid overlays the other half, symbolizing technological transformation or data networks.

Defeated by physics

By Lisbeth Gronlund, David Wright | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Donald Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone

Trump wants Kim back at the table. He must focus on coexistence, not denuclearization

By Ankit Panda | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

How the bomb failed to deliver security in Pakistan

By Sadia Tasleem | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

An elderly man in a wheelchair speaks with two women seated nearby in a well-lit living room with a lamp, window, and framed photos in the background.

Here’s what America’s last WWII atomic veterans want you to know

By Victoria Kelly, Karin Tanabe | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

students teachers hiroshima ruins

Before the next nuclear crisis, listen to those who lived through the last one

By Renata Hessmann Dalaqua, Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

The political implications of Hiroshima’s scarred “maidens”

By Alex Wellerstein | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Two men in formal attire sit side by side, smiling and clasping hands, in an ornately decorated room with gold accents and intricate designs visible in the background.

Trump administration signs a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia—and risks a Middle East arms race

By François Diaz-Maurin | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons