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The new US nuclear posture review is a major step backward

By Lisbeth Gronlund | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Biden’s nuclear posture review maintains nuclear status quo

By Emma Claire Foley | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A failure to review America’s nuclear posture

By Joe Cirincione | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The Chinese city of Urumqi in Xinjiang. Credit: Alexander Flühmann via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

China’s high-tech surveillance drives oppression of Uyghurs

By Steven Feldstein | Disruptive Technologies

The A1 Verse: Xi’s yes-men

By Thomas Gaulkin | Special Topics

A coup attempt in Moscow in 1991.

Are the US and China fighting a “tech war” over semiconductors and other advanced technology?

By Matt Field | Biosecurity

New report paints gloomy picture of the world’s nuclear industry

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Energy

barbed wire and closed-circuit TV camera

The high-tech surveillance state is not restricted to China: Interview with Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Special Topics

President Joe Biden is joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, Office of Management and Budget acting Director Shalanda Young and congressional leaders as he signs the “Consolidated Appropriations Act" on March 15, 2022. The act will fund the federal government through September 2022 and provide more than $780 billion for the US military. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Are US threat assessments outpacing the military threats America actually faces?

By Joe Cirincione | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

To sanction North Korea, sanction those that won’t—Russia and China

By Aaron Arnold | Nuclear Weapons

Then-US President Barack Obama and then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issue a joint statement announcing their pursuit of a New START treaty in London in April 2009. (White House photo by Pete Souza.)

Reviving arms control, post-Ukraine: Why New START still matters

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

Brazil wants special treatment for its nuclear submarine program—just like Australia

By Ian J. Stewart | Nuclear Risk