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

missile defense

In the first US “salvo” test of ground-based missile interceptors, two interceptors were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on March 25, 2019. They successfully intercepted a “threat-representative” ICBM target launched from a test site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This photo shows the launch of the “lead” interceptor, which destroyed the missile’s reentry vehicle. The “trail” interceptor struck the remaining “most lethal object” it could find. Credit: Missile Defense Agency

Congress is not asking the right questions about missile defense

By Deverrick Holmes | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

computer hacker and code

Missing from the 2019 Missile Defense Review: Cybersecurity

By Lauren J. Borja | Analysis, Cyber Security

artist rendering of missile launching

Welcome to the new age of nuclear instability

By Rachel Bronson | Missile Defense, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control

The Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system, pictured in 2017.. Source: Соколрус, via Wikimedia

The vicissitudes of Russian missile defense

By Alexey Arbatov | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The future of US–Russian nuclear deterrence and arms control

By Tatiana Anichkina, Anna Péczeli, Nickolas Roth | Uncategorized

Europe’s nuclear woes: Mitigating the challenges of the next years

By Ulrich Kühn, Shatabhisha Shetty, Polina Sinovets | Uncategorized

Homeland missile defense: How the United States got here

By Thomas Karako | Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Limit missile defense–or expand it?: A Russian response

By Tatiana Anichkina | Uncategorized

Limit missile defense–or expand it?: A German response

By O. Thranert | Uncategorized

Limit missile defense–or expand it?: A Chinese response

By Wu Riqiang | Uncategorized

Is “zero” the right target for disarmament?: A Chinese response

By Li Bin | Uncategorized

George P. Shultz: A Cold Warrior on a warming planet

By | Interviews