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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg previews the alliance’s upcoming Madrid Summit with POLITICO journalist Lili Bayer. Photo credit: NATO

Weapons of mass destruction: What will be new in the 2022 NATO strategic concept?

By Rose Gottemoeller | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

Michael Krepon, co-founder of the Stimson Center think tank, shows an aerial picture taken by the US military in the days after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The institution later gifted the photos to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. (Photo credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Interview: Arms control expert Michael Krepon on a broader approach to keeping the nuclear peace

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Ready, aim, fired: Can Biden rescue the Nuclear Posture Review?

By Stephen I. Schwartz | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Satellite images show hundreds of missile missile silos under construction under inflatable domes at three missile fields and a training area in north-central China. Satellite images © 2021 Maxar Technologies and © 2021 Planet Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. For media licensing options, please contact fas@fas.org

China’s nuclear missile silo expansion: From minimum deterrence to medium deterrence

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

USS Tennessee submarine

Nuclear risks are growing, and there’s only one real solution

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

ICBM test launch

Revenge is a dish best served nuclear. US deterrence depends on it.

By Peter K. Hatemi, Rose McDermott | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Alexandra bell John Holden nuclear weapons presidential election 2020

Discussion: Nuclear weapons policy and the US presidential election

By | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk

The USS Ohio submarine with its missile tubes open

The low-yield nuclear warhead: A dangerous weapon based on bad strategic thinking

By Andrew Facini | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

James N. Miller

No to no first use—for now

By James N. Miller | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Brad Roberts

It’s time to jettison Nuclear Posture Reviews

By Brad Roberts | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Qasem Soleimani and Ali Khamenei

Studies in deterrence: Why killing Iran’s Qasem Soleimani doesn’t do it

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk

James N. Miller

No to no first use—for now

By James N. Miller