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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

Bigger isn’t always better: Why the US fails to deter North Korea, despite nuclear superiority

By Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Weapons

Watching Ukraine, South Korea and Japan eye nuclear weapons. Here’s what the US should do.

By Sayuri Romei | Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear safety staffing in the United States: a crisis with no easy fix

By David Gillum, Itty Abraham, Kathleen M. Vogel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

The US and Russia must re-assess their strategic relations in a world without New START

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Weapons

An unarmed Trident II D5LE missile is launched from a US Navy submarine

Can the US President stop a new nuclear weapon he doesn’t want?

By Stephen Young | Nuclear Weapons

Cutting power: How creative measures can end the EU’s dependence on Russian nuclear fuel

By Marina Lorenzini | Nuclear Energy

How Chinese military aid to Russia could lead to a strategic reversal of nuclear forces

By Vladimir Marakhonov | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Three ways the US should respond to Russia’s suspension of New START

By Steven Pifer | Nuclear Weapons

Delegation members from the UN Security Council's five permanent members (P5), from left to right: Philip Barton of Britain, Andrea Thompson of the United States, Nicolas Roche of France, Fu Cong of China, and Oleg Rozhkov of Russia, attend a panel discussion after the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) conference in Beijing in January 2019. Photo by Thomas Peter/AFP via Getty Images.

All START: a proposal for moving beyond US-Russia arms control

By Amy J. Nelson, Michael O’Hanlon | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un shake hands

The US must trade muscles for diplomacy to end the North Korean nuclear crisis

By Colleen Moore | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

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

By Giles David Arceneaux | Nuclear Weapons