Nuclear Weapons

Satellite imagery showing the Emeishan centrifuge enrichment site near Emeishan City, Sichuan in February 2022.

China has likely resumed making weapon-grade uranium at Emeishan

By Hui Zhang | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A group of men in white lab coats observe equipment inside a laboratory.

Dismantle, weaponize, or rebuild: Why the Iran nuclear threat isn’t going away

By Sina Azodi | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A series of blue cones arranged in a diagonal line on a textured orange surface with horizontal grid lines.

The US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits

By Dylan Spaulding, Curtis T. Asplund | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

To lead on nuclear disarmament, Australia must renounce the US umbrella

By Jack Kennedy | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A graphic showing four fighter jets leaving contrails, a large bomb, and a white dove carrying an olive branch.

The nuclear paradox: Why the world wants both deterrence and disarmament

By Lauren Sukin, Luis Rodriguez, Stephen Herzog | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A large blue robotic hand points towards a person seated at a desk in a grand, ornate room with yellow lighting.

AI doesn’t need ‘superintelligence’ or evil intent to start a nuclear war

By Paul Slovic, Herbert Lin | Analysis, 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