We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth. Ronald Reagan, 1985 Inaugural Address
By Tara D. Sonenshine
Movie fans are coming out in droves to see “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s epic film centered around one of the chief scientists behind the construction of the atom bomb…
By Frank Klotz & William Courtney
This summer’s blockbuster movie “Oppenheimer” tells the story of the scientists who developed the first U.S. atomic bombs during World War II. It also recounts how J. Robert Oppenheimer and others subsequently...
By Tom Collina
If you missed out on the first nuclear arms race, you’re in luck. It’s back. On Friday, the Trump administration announced the U.S. would…
By Daryl G. Kimball
The Trump administration announced today that effective tomorrow, Feb. 2, the United States will suspend implementation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and formally notify other parties to….
By Matthew Bolton
“A nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought,” declared U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in a 1983 speech to the Japanese parliament. “I will not…
By Jerry Rogers
President Ronald Reagan was frequently two steps ahead of everyone else—the media, the Congress, the Soviets. Reagan’s ‘head-for-knowing’ was evidenced by…
By Peter D. Zimmerman
Somewhere in the American southwest, not so very far from civilization, there is a fenced and guarded compound within another fenced and guarded compound in the…
By Sergei Ryabkov and Lassina Zerbo
The growing global concerns about North Korea’s nuclear weapons capabilities and tensions in the region are a stark reminder of the need to re-energize the cooperative,…
By Michael Krepon
As we mark the centenary of the United States’ entry into World War I, I recall the words of a participant in the Versailles Treaty, which ended that conflict….
As Winston Churchill warned, if we ramp up the arms race, we’ll just “make the rubble bounce.”The stakes are even higher today because so many…
By Thomas L. Friedman
Every president has an early foreign policy test, and Donald Trump is no exception. Trump’s test is actually already in progress, and it bears some resemblance…
By Daryl G. Kimball & Charles Carrigan
So far, President Trump has provided few details about his approach to his most important job as president: reducing the risks of unconstrained global nuclear competition…
By Jeffrey Lewis
On Monday morning, North Korea launched four missiles from the northwest corner of the country that traveled 620 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan. While…
Before they go on duty with U.S. nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, officers are trained in classrooms and simulators. They are schooled in weapons…
Although the summit meeting was overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine, 53 international leaders in The Hague this week made important progress on securing nuclear…
By Jack F. Matlock Jr
One afternoon in September 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz settled in a chair across the table from Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in a New York…
By Rachel Maddow
The major general “was visibly agitated about the long delay” at the airport, the witness said. “He appeared drunk and, in the public area, talked loudly about…
By Desmond Tutu
In February 1990, the same month that Nelson Mandela, also known as Madiba, walked free after 27 years behind bars, South Africa’s then-President, Frederik…
By Steven L. Spiegel
A large portion of Congress is poised to vote for a bill that would intensify sanctions against Iran in the middle of the talks currently underway. This is a terrible…
It’s heartening to see that an agreement has been reached to ensure that Iran honors its commitment, made when it signed the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation…
By Joe Cirincione
A stunning new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the government will spend $355 billion over the next 10 years directly on nuclear weapons….
By Zachary Keck
Over at Foreign Policy, David Kenner has an interesting piece on how President Barack Obama’s views on nuclear weapons are shaping his approach to the Middle East…
By John Rash
Due to the diplomatic deal reached in Geneva, the theocracy running Iran has half a year to decide if its potential nuclear-weapons program would make the regime…
By Matthew Bunn
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that this weekend’s nuclear deal with Iran increases Iran’s chances of building nuclear weapons. He’s exactly…
One of the most enduring mysteries of the final years of the Cold War was a period of great tension and worry about nuclear conflict between the United States and…
By Elliott Negin
At the same time President Obama has been pressing for further reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)–a…
By Peter Beinart
Since he began running for president six years ago, Barack Obama has hoped aloud that he would become the Democratic Ronald Reagan. Now, suddenly, Iran may offer…
By Jeremy Greenstock & Thomas R. Pickering
The recent British parliamentary decision against military action in Syria sparked a cascade of media headlines about the demise of the US-UK “special relationship.”…