ICBM

Making sense of North Korea’s recent ICBM and (possible) nuclear tests

By Seiyeon Ji, Victor Cha | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

North Korea’s state television released a propaganda video about its recent missile launch featuring Kim Jong Un. Screenshot accessed via Korea Now, the official YouTube Channel of the Yonhap News Agency, from the embedded video below. Yonhap is funded in whole or in part by the Korean government.

North Korea tests a banned missile—and glamorizes nuclear weapons

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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

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

By Elisabeth Eaves | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Weapons

2004: City on fire

By Lynn Eden | Magazine, 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