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Decoys as simple as balloons can often fool current missile defense systems.

Limitations on ballistic missile defense—past and possibly future

By George Lewis, Frank von Hippel | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A Chinese HQ-9 air defense missile launcher, pictured in 2009.

China’s attitudes toward missile defense and its limitation

By Li Bin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Coming not so soon to a theater near you: Laser weapons for missile defense

By Subrata Ghoshroy | Uncategorized

The legacy of Reykjavik and the future of nuclear disarmament

By Paul F. Walker, Jonathan R. Hunt | Uncategorized