An interview with Peter Feaver, a political science and public policy professor at Duke University who has served on the National Security Council for two presidents and is an expert in the sub-field often known as civil-military or political-military affairs.

Consent-based siting for nuclear waste repositories seems to be headed for deep burial.

Although reviving the Iran nuclear agreement is certainly still possible, it won’t be easy. The two sides will need to overcome nine hurdles to make it happen.

From New START, to the Iran nuclear deal, to diplomacy with North Korea, President-elect Biden has his work cut out for him.

“I think it’s about having options and always looking for new ways to imagine solutions,” Farahat said. “We need a sense that we have alternatives to nuclear weapons.”

Political ads on social media are getting fresh scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the platforms can target misleading information directly to voters with unprecedented efficiency. Twitter announced it would stop accepting paid political advertising, Facebook has taken another route.

Let us focus on a modification of the INF between the United States and Russia that outlaws nuclear-armed short and intermediate-range land-based missiles in Europe, from Portugal and Ireland to the Ural mountains. Missile batteries can be located by national technical means, and any of those in Europe can be verified to be non-nuclear during on-site inspections.

A look back at our climate change coverage from 2017

Bulletin's associate editor for nuclear affairs, François Diaz-Maurin, provides his review of the nuclear year; plus six nuclear stories that marked 2023—and that you should read.

The debate over the low-yield warhead matters not just because it could make nuclear weapons more usable, but also because it exemplifies the dangers of building a weapon without a strategy.

In an op-ed entitled “The U.S. Needs More Nukes,” New York Times columnist Bret Stephens laid out his case against arms control: “the bad guys cheat, the good guys don’t,” and all the while, the US nuclear arsenal is becoming “increasingly decrepit.” It’s a simple narrative; it’s also false. In fact, Stephens’ article is largely littered with bad analogies, flawed assumptions, and straight-up incorrect facts about the nature of nuclear weapons and arms control.

The United States is pressuring allies to keep Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei from building out their 5G data networks, but thanks to Chinese government grants and extremely generous state financing, Huawei is able to drastically undercut the competition, making it hard to resist, even when companies or countries harbor some security concerns.

The US president’s announcement revives debate about weapons in space.

A brief look at some of the coverage

Articles and videos from around the World Wide Web that featured Bulletin expertise in 2017.

Over the last week, the United States has experienced greater nuclear anxiety than at any time since the Cold War ended. But South Koreans are playing it cool.

Denis Villeneuve's latest installment of the classic sci-fi novel focuses on the corruptibility of leaders, the dangers of political violence, and how the thirst for natural resources is used to justify extreme acts of war and environmental degradation. It feels more relevant than ever.

Given the military realities, there is real reason for NATO members in general and the United States in particular to be open to a NATO discussion about the future of nuclear sharing and the possibility of withdrawing US nuclear assets from Europe.