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Two men in suits greet each other on a red carpet at an airport, with an airplane and several people standing in the background.

New START’s death is around the corner. Please, someone, tell the President

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Weapons

A missile with a yellow band is launched over a scenic landscape with green hills, a lake, and partly cloudy skies.

The looming missile crisis in the Arctic

By Vladimir Marakhonov | Nuclear Weapons

United Kingdom nuclear weapons, 2024

By Hans M. Kristensen, Matt Korda, Eliana Johns, Mackenzie Knight-Boyle | Nuclear Notebook, Nuclear Weapons

Can minimum deterrence save nuclear arms control?

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Notebook: Israeli nuclear weapons, 2022

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

DF-41 ICBM launchers at parade in Beijing in September 2020. The DF-41 is now operational in at least two brigades. Source: Chinese Ministry of Defense

Nuclear Notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2021

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

Nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard arrives back at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, Scotland following a patrol. Photo: CPOA(Phot) Tam McDonald/MOD accessed via Wikimedia Commons. Open Government License version 1.0.

Nuclear Notebook: How many nuclear weapons does the United Kingdom have in 2021?

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

Detail from a report, "MX Missile Basing," issued im 1981 by the US Office of Technology Assessment.

Deep thoughts: How moving ICBMs far underground will make the whole world safer

By Ivan Oelrich | Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear notebook: Chinese nuclear forces, 2020

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

North Korea’s military parade on October 10, 2020

After the parade, North Korea’s steady progress matters more than its big new missile

By Jenny Town | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

A Chinese intercontinental ballistic missile at a 2015 military parade in Beijing. China may be a source for other governments wishing to buy missiles. (Photo credit: Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.)

Chinese nuclear forces, 2019

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

Nuclear subs. Sea lions. Massive bags of money.

By Lucien Crowder | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading