Instead of expanding the nuclear weapons budget at the expense of everything else, the United States could meet its goals with a much leaner nuclear force, leaving more money for the programs that will actually make the country safer.

A recent interview Trump gave to Fox News’ Sean Hannity left nuclear security experts scratching their heads—including Kingston Reif, who called Trump's comments an “arms control word salad.” So we asked Reif to digest Trump’s words for us…

It’s not as if we weren’t warned as to what Trump’s plans were for climate change.

The biggest challenge to public lands isn’t climate change, says the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management. It’s wild horses and burros.

Read what Trump’s independent-minded Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, had to say about Vladimir Putin—the strongman Trump admires so much.

The United States has offered about 378 millions acres of public lands and waters for oil and gas leasing since Trump took office.

President Trump is mixing trade and immigration policy with foreign policy—a move that could undermine the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran and North Korea.

In a ground-breaking piece, the New York Times reports that the federal government will no longer engage in “what scientists say is one of the most urgent jobs of climate science studies: reporting on the future effects of a rapidly warming planet and presenting a picture of what the earth could look like by the end of the century if the global economy continues to emit heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution from burning fossil fuels.”

Through an executive order, President Donald Trump launched the American AI Initiative, further underscoring the importance of a group of technologies that are reshaping everything from medical diagnoses to war-fighting. The administration didn’t give many specifics in the order published Monday evening or details about funding for its various elements such as efforts to increase … Continued

The Bulletin asked a variety of global security experts for their views on the proposed US pullout from the INF treaty, and what might be done to deal with intermediate-range nuclear weapons if the United States does ultimately leave.

In remarks last week announcing his vision for American missile defense, President Trump said “we will recognize that space is a new warfighting domain, with the Space Force leading the way.” Any strategic decision should be evaluated both by the ends it seeks to accomplish, and by the means by which it intends to accomplish them. The president’s … Continued

Russia’s violation aside, Trump’s response—to pull out of the treaty—makes the United States needlessly complicit in its demise and frees Russia from both the responsibility and pressure to return to compliance.

After accusing Russia of violating the seminal Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the US president said Washington would soon withdraw.

President Trump says he no longer believes that global warming is a hoax. But his new, unsupported theories about climate change may be even more insidious.

In the words of the Talking Heads: “Facts don’t do what I want them to”

PRESIDENT TRUMP TWEETED AN UPPER-CASE WARNING TO IRANIAN PRESIDENT HASSAN ROUHANI TO “NEVER, EVER” AGAIN THREATEN THE UNITED STATES. To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND … Continued

A year and a half into his presidency, you would think US President Donald Trump no longer had the power to flabbergast, but he took his talent to new heights on Monday during a press conference following his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Former CIA director John Brennan called Trump’s performance “nothing short of … Continued

Political pundits have been making many references lately to The Manchurian Candidate, but few seem to know the origins of the phrase.

Trump could meet Putin for a presidential summit as early as next month. But to what end?