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DF-41 ICBM launchers at parade in Beijing in September 2020. The DF-41 is now operational in at least two brigades. Source: Chinese Ministry of Defense

Nuclear Notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2021

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A Northrop Grumman Facebook post from September 2019 about its program to produce the United States' new intercontinental ballistic missile, known as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent.

Interview: Tom Collina of the Ploughshares Fund on the politics of defense spending

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk

Time exposure showing the tracks of the missiles’ six dummy warheads, white-hot from air friction, arriving 8,000 km down-range near Kwajalein Atoll in the Western Pacific. The domes in the foreground house tracking telescopes. As a part of the post-Cold War reductions, the Minuteman IIIs were downgraded to one warhead each. Credit: US Air Force photos from National Security Archive and US National Archive collections respectively. Public domain image.

Biden should end the launch-on-warning option

By Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Detail from a report, "MX Missile Basing," issued im 1981 by the US Office of Technology Assessment.

Deep thoughts: How moving ICBMs far underground will make the whole world safer

By Ivan Oelrich | Nuclear Weapons

US ICBM Test

Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon?

By Elisabeth Eaves | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Weapons

2004: City on fire

By Lynn Eden | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2020

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

A sign showing Cheyenne, Wyoming city limits

Nuclear disarmers can’t forget the communities that rely on military spending

By Tricia White, Matt Korda | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Two key questions about North Korea’s new missile

By Xu Tianran | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

North Korea’s military parade on October 10, 2020

After the parade, North Korea’s steady progress matters more than its big new missile

By Jenny Town | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

India's INS Vela submarine

India is building nuclear submarines and ICBMs. That’s a $14 billion mistake.

By Frank O’Donnell, Alexander K. Bollfrass | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

christmas illustration of north korea kim jong-un on horse as santa claus with nuclear missile

Santa Kim is coming to town—with North Korean gifts that keep on giving

By Ankit Panda | Analysis, Nuclear Risk