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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Kim Jong-un’s long game

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Close-up of new cooling water pump house and in-filled water channel at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear facility. Credit: Airbus Defense and Space/38 North

North Korea is not denuclearizing. Yet.

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Deterrence and its discontents

By Ulrich Kühn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Chinese nuclear forces, 2018

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

United States nuclear forces, 2018

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

New ways to detect nuclear misbehavior

By Katlyn M. Turner | Uncategorized

North Korean nuclear capabilities, 2018

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook

Eliminating ICBMs—as part of a 21st-century deterrence strategy

By Brent J. Talbot | Uncategorized

A history of US nuclear weapons in South Korea

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook

Through a fractured looking-glass: Trump’s nuclear decisions so far

By Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Weapons

Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2017

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook

Indian nuclear forces, 2017

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons