The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse.

candidate questions 2024

Question for the candidates: How will you reassure allies worried about the credibility of the US security guarantees?

By Sara Bjerg Moller | 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

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