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Germany’s nuclear weapons policy and the war: Money for nukes, words for disarmament

By Moritz Kütt | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A launch of the Russian Iskander-M, which can carry a tactical nuclear warhead, at the Kapustin Yar proving ground in March 2018. Photo credit: the websites (mil.ru, минобороны.рф) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Rhetoric in Ukraine has reinforced the fallacy of limited nuclear exchange

By John Gower, Andrew Weber | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Pushing back against Putin’s threat of nuclear use in Ukraine

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

NPT Review Conference: Will it rise to the proliferation challenges?

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Weapons

Sweden's Supreme Commander Micael Bydén commented on the decision to apply for Swedish NATO membership at a May press conference. Photo credit: Henrik Lundqvist Rådmark/Swedish Armed Forces

As Sweden gets ready for NATO, will its approach to nuclear weapons change?

By Jens Petersson | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Ending the war in Ukraine: practical, if painful, possibilities

By Edward M. Ifft | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

anti-war signs on Russian Embassy in London

Building a nuclear off-ramp following the war in Ukraine

By James E. Doyle | Nuclear Weapons

Russia-Belarus nuclear sharing would mirror NATO’s—and worsen Europe’s security

By Nikolai N. Sokov | Nuclear Weapons

US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris, Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement on transferring nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia and associated matters in Moscow, January 1994. Photo credit: Joseph P. Harahan, historian of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the Clinton Presidential Library.

Why security assurances are losing their clout as a nuclear nonproliferation instrument

By Ariel E. Levite | Nuclear Weapons

illustration of chess pieces made of flags of the nine nuclear weapons states falling over with Ukrainian flag in the background

Has the Russia-Ukraine war blown up the global nuclear order?

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

If Ukraine chooses neutrality, what could that look like?

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Risk, Opinion

Tacit rules to avoid a NATO-Russia war

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion