A Russian GLCM is launched from an Iskander-K launcher at Kapustin Yar in 2007. By Hans M. Kristensen The United States yesterday publicly accused Russia of violating the landmark 1987…
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Click image for larger version. By Hans M. Kristensen In our Nuclear Notebook on Russian nuclear forces from March this year, Robert S. Norris and…
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By Hans M. Kristensen Last week I was in New York to brief two panels at the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee…
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The Obama administration has yet to make a visible dent in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Click on graph for larger format. By Hans M. Kristensen After a transparency…
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By Hans M. Kristensen Robert Norris and I have made an update to our Nuclear Notebook on the B61 nuclear bomb family. Kind…
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At the same time the Air Force is destroying 50 silos at Malmstrom AFB (above) and another 50 at F.E Warren AFB emptied by the Bush administration, the Obama administration…
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By Hans M. Kristensen The latest aggregate data released by the US State Department for the New START treaty show that Russia has…
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By Hans M. Kristensen While arms control opponents in Congress have been busy criticizing the Obama administration’s proposal to reduce nuclear forces further,…
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In a few years, US Air Force C-17 aircraft will begin airlifting new B61-12 nuclear bombs into six air bases in five NATO countries, including Volkel Air Base in the…
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Who pays for a crash of a nuclear weapons airlift from Volkel Air Base? By Hans M. Kristensen Only a few years before U.S. nuclear bombs deployed at Volkel Air…
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