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Launch of a missile defense interceptor from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California.

US Ground-based midcourse missile defense: Expensive and unreliable

By Laura Grego | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

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

Russian nuclear forces, 2018

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

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A history of US nuclear weapons in South Korea

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

Noam Chomsky: In the Trump era, severe threats to “organized human life”

By Lucien Crowder | Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons

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

By Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Weapons

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Hybrid war: Russian contemporary political warfare

By Christopher S. Chivvis | Special Topics, Technology and Security

Nonstrategic nuclear weapons in Russia’s evolving military doctrine

By Katarzyna Zysk | Uncategorized

Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2017

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

A plausible scenario of nuclear war in Europe, and how to deter it: A perspective from Estonia

By J. Luik, T. Jermalavičius | Nuclear Weapons

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

By Ulrich Kühn, Shatabhisha Shetty, Polina Sinovets | Uncategorized

Amid high tensions, an urgent need for nuclear restraint

By Anastasia Malygina, Sven-Eric Fikenscher, J. Nielsen | Uncategorized