A Rare Look Inside a Russian ICBM Base November 19, 2019
It’s relatively easy to observe Russian missile bases from above. It’s much harder to do it from inside. But in September, the Russian Ministry of…
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Urgent: Move US Nuclear Weapons Out Of Turkey October 16, 2019
Should the U.S. Air Force withdraw the roughly 50 B61 nuclear bombs it stores at the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey? The question has come to a head after Turkey’s…
Read moreNew START Treaty Data Shows Treaty Keeping Lid On Strategic Nukes October 4, 2019
The latest data on US and Russian strategic nuclear forces limited by the New START treaty shows the treaty is serving its intended purpose of keeping a lid on the…
Read moreMilitary Might Takes Center Stage at Chinese 70-Year Anniversary Parade October 1, 2019
The Chinese leadership used the 70-year anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China to display a dizzying amount of military hardware during a parade in Beijing (see…
Read moreNew Missile Silo And DF-41 Launchers Seen In Chinese Nuclear Missile Training Area September 3, 2019
Newly acquired satellite photos acquired from Digital Globe (Maxar) show that the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) is building what appears to be a new type…
Read moreThe History of U.S. Decision-making on Nuclear Weapons in Japan August 21, 2019
Many proposals for intermediate-range missiles in Asia refer to conventional weapons, because of their strategic importance, but many Japanese are likely to read these proposals as part of a long and politically fractious history of US weapons deployments to Japanese territory that included nuclear weapons.
Read moreSunday’s US Missile Launch, Explained. August 20, 2019
Arms Control Twitter has been abuzz since yesterday’s announcement that the United States had conducted a surprise launch of a Tomahawk missile on Sunday afternoon.
Read moreNo Bret, the U.S. Doesn’t Need More Nukes August 14, 2019
Reflexively crying “more nukes” without articulating any kind of strategic vision isn’t going to get us out of the arms race.
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