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New START

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What to expect from Trump’s second term: more erratic, darker, and more dangerous

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Risk

Question for the candidates: What is your plan to prevent the next dangerous and expensive nuclear arms race?

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: How will you deter North Korea’s aggression without deteriorating the situation on the Korean Peninsula?

By Eliana Johns | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: Should the president retain the sole authority to order the use of nuclear weapons?

By Mackenzie Knight | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: Do you agree with other world leaders that the use of—or threat to use—nuclear weapons is “inadmissible”?

By Daryl G. Kimball | Nuclear Weapons

Question for the candidates: How many nuclear warheads does the United States need?

By Tom Z. Collina | Nuclear Weapons

Risk reduction can help prevent nuclear crises. Here’s how.

By Shawn Rostker | Nuclear Weapons

The nuclear year in review: A renewed interest in nuclear weapons—for and against

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The US and China re-engage on arms control. What may come next

By Daryl G. Kimball | Nuclear Weapons

‘Oppenheimer’, the bomb, and arms control, then and now

By Daryl G. Kimball | Nuclear Weapons

In focus: The impact of US countermeasures to Russia’s New START violations

By Marshall L. Brown, Jr. | Nuclear Weapons

The US and Russia must re-assess their strategic relations in a world without New START

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Weapons