strategic stability

The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee launches a Block V Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon's newest variant, during a three day missile exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Sean Ianno)

Why the US fixation on increased nuclear capability won’t deter China but could lead to instability and nuclear war

By Andrew Facini | Nuclear Weapons

Members of the Wagner Group look from a military vehicle with the sign "Brother" in Rostov-on-Don late on Saturday. (Photo by Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty Images)

What would happen if a military group took over Russia’s nuclear arsenal?

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Weapons

Some countries plan to decentralize control of nuclear weapons in a crisis. Here’s why that’s dangerous.

By Giles David Arceneaux | Nuclear Weapons

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov pose for pictures as they attend security talks on soaring tensions over Ukraine at the US permanent Mission, in Geneva, on January 10. "The conversation was difficult, it couldn't have been easy," Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency after meeting Sherman during a working dinner in Geneva. (Photo by DENIS BALIBOUSE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin’s demand for security guarantees: Not new and not to be taken literally, but not to be ignored

By Andrey A. Baklitskiy | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

What strategic stability? How to fix the concept for US-Russia relations

By Mikhail Troitskiy | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

How Biden can advance nuclear arms control and stability with Russia and China

By Pranay Vaddi | Nuclear Weapons

Illustration depicting a hypersonic missile

Hypersonic missiles: Why the new “arms race” is going nowhere fast

By Andrew W. Reddie | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons

Arms control in outer space: The Russian angle, and a possible way forward

By Alexey Arbatov | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

A weapon on display. Credit: Max Smith via Wikimedia Commons.

What the United States can do to stabilize its nuclear relationship with China

By Tong Zhao | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with US President Donald Trump. Credit: www.kremlin.ru CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Russian views of US nuclear modernization

By Dmitri Trenin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Amid high tensions, an urgent need for nuclear restraint

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

The future of US–Russian nuclear deterrence and arms control

By Tatiana Anichkina, Anna Péczeli, Nickolas Roth | Uncategorized