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The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee launches a Block V Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon's newest variant, during a three day missile exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Sean Ianno)

Why the US fixation on increased nuclear capability won’t deter China but could lead to instability and nuclear war

By Andrew Facini | Nuclear Weapons

Watching Ukraine, South Korea and Japan eye nuclear weapons. Here’s what the US should do.

By Sayuri Romei | Nuclear Weapons

President Joe Biden in a photo from 2016. Credit: US Embassy Tel Aviv. CC BY 2.0.

Biden’s pivot to Asia is missing something: diplomats

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion