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Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: Will the United States sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?

By Alicia Sanders-Zakre | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: What is your plan to prevent the next dangerous and expensive nuclear arms race?

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: How will you deter North Korea’s aggression without deteriorating the situation on the Korean Peninsula?

By Eliana Johns | Nuclear Weapons

The experts comment: Key nuclear questions that the US presidential candidates should answer

By François Diaz-Maurin, John Mecklin | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: Has Russia’s war in Ukraine changed your view of the role of nuclear weapons?

By Siegfried S. Hecker | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: What will you do if Iran gets the bomb?

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: What will you do to avoid a nuclear arms race with Russia and China?

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: Should the president retain the sole authority to order the use of nuclear weapons?

By Mackenzie Knight | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: Do you agree with other world leaders that the use of—or threat to use—nuclear weapons is “inadmissible”?

By Daryl G. Kimball | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: How many nuclear warheads does the United States need?

By Tom Z. Collina | Nuclear Weapons

Biden focused on strategic stability. His successor should embrace arms control

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb | Nuclear Weapons

atomic bomb test in Marshall Islands

Project 2025’s stance on nuclear testing: A dangerous step back

By Tom Armbruster | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion