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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament protest in London, 1983

How to avoid nuclear war with China

By Richard L. Garwin, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Siegfried Hecker, a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 21 January, 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Hecker, who was a member of an unofficial US delegation that visited the controversial Yongbyon research complex this month, told lawmakers that North Korea can accumulate six Kilograms (13.2 pounds) a year of plutonium that could be used to make a nuclear weapon. "The five megawatt reactor has been re-started, it appears to be operating smoothly, providing heat and electricity, also accumulating approximately six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of plutonium per year in its spent fuel rods." Photo credit: Stephen Jaffe/AFP via Getty Images

An excerpt from “Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program”

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Elliot Serbin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Psychological reflections on the tragic dynamics of war

By Charles B. Strozier | Opinion

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else. (Chinese)

By François Diaz-Maurin, Thomas Gaulkin | Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The US has a new nuclear proliferation problem: South Korea

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Weapons

US nuclear submarine

Nuclear Notebook: United States nuclear weapons, 2023

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

camera-based remote monitoring

Remote Monitoring: Verifying geographical arms limits

By Moritz Kütt, Ulrich Kühn, Dmitry Stefanovich | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics, The INF Treaty and the Future of Arms Control

Image of an Iranian Fateh-110 missile being launched during the Great prophet-7 military exercise in 2012.

Triple threat: Russia, Iran, and North Korea trade arms to get around sanctions

By Darya Dolzikova, Daniel Salisbury | Nuclear Weapons

The 2022 nuclear year in review: A global nuclear order in shambles

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

soldier with gas mask

Putin’s psychology and nuclear weapons: the fundamentalist mindset

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Special Topics

night-time test launch of Minuteman ICBM with silhouettes of crowd

Nuclear Notebook: The long view—Strategic arms control after the New START Treaty

By Jessica Rogers, Matt Korda, Hans M. Kristensen | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Putin at 20-foot long table with Macron

Distressing a system in distress: Global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons