Nuclear Information Project Publications

This chronology lists articles and reports published by the Nuclear Information Project or written by project staff elsewhere. To the extent possible, the documents are located on the FAS web site. External links might go dead over time. If you need assistance to locate missing documents, please contact individual project staff via the “about” page.

The publications below were made possible by generous grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the New Land Foundation, and the Ploughshares Fund.

2018:

• “Widespread Blurring of Satellite Images Reveals Secret Facilities,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 10, 2018.
• “An X reveals a Diamond: locating Israeli Patriot batteries using radar interference,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 13, 2018.
• “INF Weapons: Status Modernizations and Arms Control Prospects,” Toda Peace Institute, Policy Brief No. 25, November 2018.
• “Indian nuclear forces, 2018,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 2018.
• “NNSA Plan Shows Nuclear Warhead Cost Increases and Expanded Production,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 5, 2018.
• “Trump falls on sword for Putin’s treaty violation” (with Matt Korda), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 29, 2018.
• “Putin Deepens Confusion About Russian Nuclear Policy” (with Abigail Stowe-Thurston and Matt Korda), Russia Matters, October 25, 2018.
• “New START Numbers Show Importance of Extending Treaty,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 5, 2018.
• “Russian ICBM Upgrade at Kozelsk,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 5, 2018.
• “Pakistani nuclear forces, 2018,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2018.
• “Chinese nuclear forces, 2018,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 2018.
• “Russia Upgrades Nuclear Weapons Storage Site In Kaliningrad,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 18, 2018.
• “US SSBN Patrols Steady, But Mysterious Reduction in Pacific In 2017,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 24, 2018.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2018,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 2018.
• “Despite Rhetoric, US Stockpile Continues to Decline,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 22, 2018.
• “United States nuclear forces, 2018,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 2018.
• “After Seven Years of Implementation, New START Treaty Enters Into Effect,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 8, 2018.
• “Expert Commentary: The Nuclear Posture Review and the US nuclear arsenal,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2, 2018.
• “B61-12 Integration on Allied Aircraft,” chapter 5 in Steve Andreasen, et al, Building a Safe, Secure, and Credible NATO Nuclear Posture, Nuclear Threat Initiative, January 2018.
• “Supporting the DCA Mission,” chapter 4 in Steve Andreasen, et al, Building a Safe, Secure, and Credible NATO Nuclear Posture, Nuclear Threat Initiative, January 2018.
• “B61-12 Guided Nuclear Bomb,” chapter 3 in Steve Andreasen, et al, Building a Safe, Secure, and Credible NATO Nuclear Posture, Nuclear Threat Initiative, January 2018.
• “New Data Shows Details About Final Phase of US New START Treaty Reductions,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 13, 2018.
• “North Korean nuclear capabilities, 2018,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2018.

2017:

• “NNSA’s New Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 16, 2017.
• “US B-1B bomber assurance missions to Korea,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 6, 2017.
• “CBO Presents Options For A More Affordable Nuclear Modernization Plan,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 31, 2017.
• “A History of US Nuclear Weapons In South Korea,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 2017.
• “Deter, don’t provoke, North Korea,” CNN, October 11, 2017.
• “NATO Nuclear Exercise Underway With Czech and Polish Participation,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 17, 2017.
• “‘Small Hands’ Don’t Like Small Nuclear Arsenals,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 11, 2017.
• “New START Data: Russia Slashes Deployed Warheads, US Reaches Limits,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 2, 2017.
• “The Status of Nuclear Weapons: Arsenals, Modernizations, and Operations,” briefing to Pugwash-USPID conference on international security in the Trump era, Castiglioncello, Italy, September 22, 2017.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces: Buildup or Modernization,” Russia Matters, September 14, 2017.
• “Worldwide deployment of nuclear weapons, 2017,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2017.
• “NASIC Removes Russian INF-Violating Missile From Report,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 22, 2017.
• “New START Data Shows US Implementation, Questions About Bomber Force,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 11, 2017.
• “Trends in world nuclear forces, 2017,” with Shannon Kile, SIPRI, July 2017. Link to full PDF format.
• “Review of NASIC Report 2017: Nuclear Force Developments,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 30, 2017.
• “The Flawed Push For New Nuclear Weapons Capabilities,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 29, 2017.
• Briefing at United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty Conference side event in New York on status and trends in nuclear forces, June 21, 2017. Event was hosted by the Austrian delegation and organized by the Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS) and co-sponsored by the Physicians for Social Responsibility. Briefing slides from the event are available here.
• “The Pentagon’s 2017 Report on Chinese Military Affairs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 8, 2017.
• “B-52 Bomber No Longer Delivers Nuclear Gravity Bombs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 25, 2017.
• “Alert Status of Nuclear Weapons,” briefing to George Washington University Elliott School’s Short Course on Nuclear Weapons and Related Security Issues, April 21, 2017.
• “The Quest for More Useable Nuclear Weapons,” in John Borrie, Tim Caughley and Wilfred Wan (Ed.), Understanding Nuclear Weapon Risks, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, April 2017, pp. 33-44. The report culminated in a conference with the recordings of the various presentations (mine included) available here.
• “New START 2017: Russia Decreasing, US Increasing Deployed Warheads,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 3, 2017.
• “How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze,” withMatthew McKinzie and Theodore A. Postol, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 1, 2017.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2017,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 2017.
• “Beyond U.S.-Russian Arms Control,” speech at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit, Washington, D.C.
• “INF, New START and What Really Matters for US-Russian Nuclear Arms Control,” Russia Matters, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, February 24, 2017.
• “In Reuters Interview President Trump Flunks Nuclear 101,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 23, 2017.
• “Obama Administration Announced Unilateral Nuclear Weapon Cuts,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 11, 2017.
• “United States nuclear forces, 2017,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2017.

2016:

• “Pakistan’s Evolving Nuclear Weapons Infrastructure,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 16, 2016.
• “Pakistani Nuclear Forces, 2016,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2016.
• “Will Trump Be Another Republican Nuclear Weapons Disarmer?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 9, 2016.
• “The Growing Threat of Nuclear War and the Role of the Health Community,” World Medical Journal, Vol. 62, No. 3, October 2016. A single file copy is available here.
• “New START Data Shows Russian Warhead Increase Before Expected Decrease,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 3, 2016.
• “Increasing Nuclear Bomber Operations,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 25, 2016.
• “Non-Nuclear Bombers For Reassurance and Deterrence,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 13, 2016.
• “Taking Stock: New START Implementation and Outlook,” briefing to Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, DC, August 24, 2016.
• “Nuclear arsenals: Current developments, trends and capabilities” (with Matthew McKinzie), in International Review of the Red Cross, Issue 899 (The Human Cost of Nuclear Weapons).
• “New START Implementation and Future: An Assessment of US Progress and Outlook,” briefing to Deep Cuts Commission workshop Restraint and Dialogue: Improving European Security and Arms Control, held at IMEMO, Moscow, June 20, 2016.
• “Chinese nuclear forces, 2016,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2016.
• “Trends in World Nuclear Forces, 2016,” SIPRI, June 13, 2016.
• “Nuclear Modernization, Enhanced Military Capabilities, and Strategic Stability,” briefing to Arms Control Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2016.
• “US Nuclear Stockpile Numbers Published Enroute To Hiroshima,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 26, 2016.
• “Pentagon Report and Chinese Nuclear Forces,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 18, 2016.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2016,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 2015.
• “Nuclear Transparency and Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 5, 2016.
• “New START Data Shows Russian Increases and US decreases,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 1, 2016.
• “Questions About The Nuclear Cruise Missile Mission,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 25, 2016.
• “United States nuclear forces, 2016,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 2016.
• “FAS Nuclear Notebook Published: US Nuclear Forces, 2016,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 2, 2016.
• “New B-21 Bomber or B-2 Mod 1?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 1, 2016.
• “PBS Newshour takes on the Holy Nuclear Triad,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 24, 2016.
• “Pentagon Portrays Nuclear Modernization As Response To Russia,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 11, 2016.
• “Nuclear Force Modernizations: Russia, China and the United States,” briefing to School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, February 9, 2016.
• “The Basics of Nuclear Weapons: Physics, Fuel Cycles, Effects and Arsenals,” briefing to Introduction to WMD Nonproliferation Course, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Washington, D.C., February 8, 2016.
• “RAND Report Questions Nuclear Role in Defending Baltic States,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 3, 2016.
• “Declassified: US Nuclear Weapons At Sea,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 3, 2016.
• “Video Shows Earth-Penetrating Capability of B61-12 Nuclear Bomb,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 14, 2016. With Matthew McKinzie.
• “Declassified: US nuclear weapons at sea during the Cold War,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2016.

2015:

• “Forget LRSO; JASSM-ER Can Do The Job,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 16, 2015.
• “Kalibr: Savior of INF Treaty?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 14, 2015.
• “Adjusting NATO’s Nuclear Posture,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 7, 2015.
• “General Cartwright Confirms B61-12 Bomb “Could Be More Useable,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 5, 2015.
• “NATO Nuclear Operations: Management, Escalation, Balance of Power,” briefing to course on nuclear weapons policy and arms control, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, October 27, 2015.
• “Pakistani nuclear forces, 2015,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, October 22, 2015.
• “LRSO: The Nuclear Cruise Missile Mission,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 20, 2015.
• “European Nuclear Forces, Operations, and Modernization,” briefing to FAS-BASIC roundtable on the state of the UK and European debates on nuclear weapons, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2015.
• “US Drops Below New START Warhead Limit For The First Time,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 6, 2015.
• “Russian Pacific Fleet Prepares For Arrival of New Missile Submarines,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 14, 2015.
• “Upgrades at US Nuclear Bases in Europe Acknowledge Security Risk,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 10, 2015.
• “Indian nuclear forces, 2015,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2015.
• “Nuclear Weapons in NATO’s Deterrence Posture: Status Quo or Change?,” in Stefanie von Hlatky and Andreas Wenger, The Future of Extended Deterrence: The United States, NATO, and Beyond (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, September 2015), pp. 135-151.
• “US Nuclear Weapons Base In Italy Eyed By Alleged Terrorists,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 22, 2015.
• “The meaning of Russia’s nuclear threats,” Brookings Institution panel event, July 8, 2015.
• “Chinese nuclear forces, 2015,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 2015.
• “Pentagon Report: China Deploying MIRV Missile,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 11, 2015.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2015,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 2015.
• “Worldwide Nuclear Weapon Modernization Programs,” briefing to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference side-event on nuclear modernizations, United Nations, New York, April 28, 2015.
• “Obama Administration Releases New Nuclear Warhead Numbers,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 28, 2015.
• “Is China Planning To Build More Missile Submarines?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 23, 2015.
• “New Nuclear Notebook: Russian Nuclear Forces 2015,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 21, 2015.
• “France,” chapter in Assuring Destruction Forever: 2015 EDITION, Reaching Critical Will, 2015, pp. 30-37. A copy of the chapter is available here.
• “US Nuclear Deterrence Policy and Japan’s Nuclear Policy,” briefing to GENSUIKIN, Tokyo, March 6, 2015.
• “China’s Nuclear Modernization: Implications for Nuclear Arms Control, US-Chinese Strategic Stability, and Asia-Pacific Security,” briefing to Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Japanese Institute for International Affairs (JIIA), Tokyo, March 6, 2015.
• “Civilian Research of the Status of Worldwide Nuclear Forces,” briefing to the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (RECNA), Nagasaki University, March 4, 2015.
• “US nuclear forces, 2015,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 2015.
• “The INF Crisis: Bad Press and Nuclear Saber Rattling,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 26, 2015.
• “The Nuclear Weapons ‘Procurement Holiday,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 21, 2015.
• “Counting nuclear warheads in the public interest,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2015.

2014:

• “Rumors About Nuclear Weapons in Crimea,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 18, 2014.
• “Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear War Planning, and Scenarios of Nuclear Conflict,” briefing (with Matthew McKinzie) to international Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons, Vienna, Austria, December 8, 2014.
• “Nuclear Weapons in a Nutshell,” briefing to ICAN Civil Society Forum, Vienna, Austria, December 6, 2014.
• “Russian and NATO Non-Strategic Nuclear Forces,” briefing to NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Preparedness for Nuclear Radiological Threats, Los Angeles, November 18, 2014.
• “Israeli nuclear forces, 2014,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 2014.
• “How Presidents Arm and Disarm,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 15, 2014.
• “W80-1 Warhead Selected For New Nuclear Cruise Missile,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 10, 2014.
• “New START: Russia and the United States Increased Deployed Nuclear Arsenals,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 2, 2014.
• “Russian Nuclear Weapons Modernization: Status, Trends, and Implications,” briefing to Workshop on Russia Nuclear Posture and Policy, Foundation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris, September 29, 2014.
• “Why NATO should eliminate it tactical nukes, despite Russian belligerence,” (with Adam Mount), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 3, 2014.
• “Worldwide deployment of nuclear weapons, 2014,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2014.
• “Russia Declared in Violation of INF Treaty: New Cruise Missile May Be Deploying,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 30, 2014.
• “Slowing nuclear weapon reductions and endless nuclear weapons modernization: A challenge to the NPT,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 2014.
• “Italy’s Nuclear Anniversary: Fake Reassurance For a King’s Ransom,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 30, 2014.
• “Nuclear Weapons Trends: Numbers, Owners, Locations, Modernizations,” briefing to Red Cross working group, Hague, June 16, 2014.
• “DOD Report Shows Chinese Nuclear Force Adjustment and US Nuclear Secrecy,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 11, 2014.
• “Chinese Nuclear Missile Upgrade Near Dalian,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 21, 2014.
• “Nuclear Exercises Amidst Ukrainian Crisis: Time For Cooler Heads,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 16, 2014.
• “Nuclear Weapons Modernization: A Threat to the NPT?,” Arms Control Today, May 2014.
• “Russian ICBM Force Modernization: Arms Control Please!,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 7, 2014.
• “Nuclear Modernization Briefings at the NPT Conference in New York,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 5, 2014.
• “B61-12: The Guided Standoff Nuclear Bomb,” briefing to NGO side event at PREPCOM 2014, May 2, 2014.
• “Nuclear Weapon Modernization Programs of Nuclear-Armed States,” briefing to NGO side event at PREPCOM 2014, May 1, 2014.
• “Nuclear Weapons Modernization: A Threat to the NPT?,” Arms Control Today, May 2014.
• “US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Number Declassified: Only 309 Warheads Cut by Obama Administration,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 29, 2014.
• “China SSBN Fleet Getting Ready – But For What?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 25, 2014.
• “The B61 Family of Nuclear Bombs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 24, 2014.
• “The B61 Family of Nuclear Bombs,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 2014.
• “B61-12 Nuclear Bomb Design Features,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 16, 2014.
• “Obama Administration Decision Weakens New START Implementation,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 9, 2014.
• “New START Data Show Russian Increase, US Decrease of Deployed Warheads,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 1, 2014.
• “Nuclear Weapons Base Visits: Accident and Incident Exercises as Confidence-Building Measures,” briefing to Workshop on Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe: Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures in Practice, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, 27-28 March 2014.
• “B61-12 Nuclear Bomb Integration on NATO Aircraft To Start in 2015,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 13, 2014.
• “NATO Nuclear Weapons Security Costs Expected to Double,” FAS Strategic Securituy Blog, March 11, 2014
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2014,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March 2014.
• “B61-12: NATO’s New Guided Standoff Nuclear Bomb,” briefing to the Dutch and Belgian parliament’s foreign and defense committees, January 2014.
• “US nuclear forces, 2014,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2014.

2013:

• “Chinese nuclear forces, 2013,” FAS Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 2013.
• “Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control: Modernizing Nuclear Arsenals,” briefing to Nuclear Weapons Issues in the 21st Century, George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, November 2, 2013. (Warning: 10 MB file).
• “Nuclear Warhead Stockpiles and Transparency” (with Robert Norris), in Global Fissile Material Report 2013, International Panel on Fissile Materials, October 2013, pp. 50-58.
• “India’s Missile Modernization Beyond Minimum Deterrence,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 3, 2013.
• “New START Data Shows Russia Reducing, US Increasing Nuclear Forces,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 2, 2013.
• “The U.S. Nuclear Posture After the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review and 2013 Nuclear Employment Strategy,” briefing to Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, September 25, 2013.
• “Falling Short of Prague: Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Employment Policy,” Arms Control Today, September 2013.
• “Global nuclear weapons inventories, 1945-2013,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2013.
• “Dispute Over US Nuke in the Netherlands: Who Pays For An Accident?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 29, 2013.
• “SSBNX Under Pressure: Submarine Chief Says Navy Can’t Reduce,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 24, 2013.
• “Air Force Intellignece Report Provides Snapshot of Nuclear Missiles,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 10, 2013.
• “Russian Missile Test Creates Confusion and Opposition in Washington,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 3, 2013.
• “British nuclear stockpile, 1953-2013,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2013.
• “New Nuclear Weapons Employment Guidance Puts Obama’s Fingerprint on Nuclear Weapons Policy and Strategy,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 20, 2013.
• “De-alerting nuclear forces,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 19, 2013.
• “Nukes in Europe: Secrecy Under Siege,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 13, 2013.
• “World Nuclear Forces,” in SIPRI Yearbook 2013 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
• “US Nuclear Policy: A Mixed Message,” The Monthly Komei (Japan), June 2013. Japanese version here.
• “B61-12: America’s New Guided Standoff Nuclear Bomb,” briefing to WAND, May 30, 2013. Recording of briefing is available on YouTube.
• “Air Force Briefing Shows Nuclear Modernizations But Ignores US and UK Programs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 29, 2013.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2013,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2013.
• “Declining Deterrent Patrols Indicate Too Many SSBNs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 30, 2013.
• “B-2 Stealth Bomber to Carry New Nuclear Cruise Missile,” FAS Strategic Securty Blog, April 22, 2013.
• “Chinese ICBM Force Leveling Out,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 19, 2013.
• “$1 Billion for a Nuclear Bomb Tail,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 12, 2013.
• “US Nuclear War Plan Updated Amidst Nuclear Policy Review,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 4, 2013.
• “New START Data: US Reductions Finally Picking Up; Russia Flatlining,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 3, 2013.
• “US Navy Instruction Confirms Retirement of Nuclear Tomahawk Cruise Missile,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 18, 2013.
• “US nuclear forces, 2013,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2013.
• “Unilateral Versus Bilateral Nuclear Reductions,” prepared remarks to CSIS PONI Debate, February 27, 2013.
• “(Still) Secret US Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Reduced,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 26, 2013.
• “Additional Delays Expected in B61-12 Nuclear Bomb Schedule,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 21, 2013.
• “Meteors Against Nukes,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 17, 2013.
• Reducing Alert Rates of Nuclear Weapons, UNIDIR.

2012:

• Trimming Nuclear Excess: Options for Further Reductions of U.S. and Russian Nuclear Forces, FAS Special Report No 5, December 2012.
• “New Detailed Data For US Nuclear Forces Counted Under New START Treaty,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 30, 2012.
• “B61-12: Contract Signed for Improving Precision of Nuclear Bomb,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 28, 2012.
• “Nuclear Modernization Talk at BASIC Panel,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 26, 2012.
• “Germany and B61 Nuclear Bomb Modernization,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 13, 2012.
• “Cuban Missile Crisis: Nuclear Order of Battle,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 20, 2012.
• “Cuban Missile Crisis: a nuclear order of battle, October and November 1962,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2012.
• “NATO: Nuclear Transparency Begins at Home,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 12, 2012.
• “DOD: Strategic Stability Not Threatened Event by Greater Russian Nuclear Forces,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 10, 2012.
• “New START Data Released: Nuclear Flatlining,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 3, 2012.
• “U.S. Nuclear Strategy After the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review,” briefing to graduate seminar on nuclear policy at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, October 2012.
• “India’s SSBN Shows Itself,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 29, 2012.
• “In Warming US-NZ Relations, Outdated Nuclear Policy Remains Unnecessary Irritant,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 23, 2012.
• “China’s Nuclear Forces and Potential Vulnerabilities: Potential Implications for Posture and Strategy,” briefing to Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs workshop on Mitigating U.S. and Chinese Concerns About Each Other’s Nuclear Offensive and Defense Programs, Princeton University, September 24, 2012.
• “Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons, 2012,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2012.
• “STRATCOM Commander Rejects High Estimates for Chinese Nuclear Arsenal,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 22, 2012.
• “U.S. Nuclear Strategy After the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review,” briefing to the Public Policy and Nuclear Threats “boot camp” workshop at the University of California San Diego, August 10, 2012.
• Speech: “Will Advanced Conventional Capabilities Undermine or Enhance Deterrence?,” USSTRATCOM Deterrence Symposium, Omaha, NE, August 9, 2012. Video is available here.
• “B61-12: NNSA’s Gold-Plated Nuclear Bomb Project,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 26, 2012.
• “Indian Nuclear Forces, 2012,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July-August 2012. See also blog here.
• “Event: Conference on Using Satellite Imagery to Monitor Nuclear Forces and Proliferators,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 7, 2012. My briefing slides are here.
• “Second Batch of New START Data Released,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 1, 2012.
• “NATO’s Nuclear Groundhog Day,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 18, 2012.
• “B61 Nuclear Bomb Costs Escalating,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 9, 2012.
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2012,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May-June 2012.
• “FAS Report on Status and Trends of U.S. and Russian Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons,” briefing held in the U.S. Senate, May 3, 2012.
• Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons, FAS, May 2012.
• “France,” chapter in Assuring Destruction Forever, Reraching Critical Will, April 2012, pp. 27-33.
• “Chinese Mobile ICBMs Seen in Central China,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 1, 2012.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2012,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March-April 2012.
• “Chinese Nuclear Modernization: Smaller and Later,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 24, 2012.
• “Nuclear Studies and Republican Disarmers,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 16, 2012.
• “Budget Blunder: ‘No Cuts’ in Nuclear Forces,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 27, 2012.
• “Indian Army Chief: Nukes Not For Warfighting,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 18, 2012.
• Briefing: Perspectives on the 2013 Budget Request and President Obama’s Guidance on the Future of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program, presented to the Fourth Nuclear Deterrence Summit, Arlington, VA, February 15, 2012.
• “A New Defense Strategy: A New Nuclear Strategy?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 5, 2012.
• “Nuclear Pursuits, 2012,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January-February 2012.

2011:

• “US Releases Full New START Data,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, Deceber 9, 2011.
• “No, China Does Not Have 3,000 Nuclear Weapons,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 3, 2011.
• “Reviewing Nuclear Guidance: Putting Obama’s Words Into Action,” Arms Control Today, November 2011.
• “Chinese nuclear forces, 2011,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2011.
• “End of the B53 Era; Continuation of the Spin Era,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 25, 2011.
• “New START Data: Modet Reductions and Decreased Transparency,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 24, 2011.
• “When the Boomers Went to South Korea,” FAS Strategic Seurity Blog, October 4, 2011.
• “British nuclear forces, 2011,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2011.
• “Produce to Reduce: The Hedge Gamble,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 19, 2011.
• “Hydrodynamic Tests: Not to Scale,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 15, 2011.
• “Ambitious Warhead Life Extension Programs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 13, 2011.
• “Nuclear Plan Conflicts with New Budget Realities,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 12, 2011.
• “Pentagon’s 2011 China Report: Reducing Nuclear Transparency,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 25, 2011.
• “Rewriting US Presidential Nuclear War Planning Guidance,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 11, 2011.
• “A Presidential Policy Directive for a new nuclear path,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 10, 2011.
• “NATO’s Posture Review and Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons,” prepared remarks for Brookings panel on NATO’s nuclear policy, July 19, 2011.
• “Pakistani Nuclear Forces 2011,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July-August 2011. See also blog with briefing slide.
• “B61 LEP: Increasing NATO Nuclear Capability and Precision Low-Yield Strikes.” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 15, 2011. Also available as an Issue Brief.
• “World nuclear forces,” SIPRI Yearbook 2011, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, June 2011.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2011,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2011.
• “U.S. nuclear forces, 2011,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2011.
• “Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons After the Presidential Nuclear Initiatives,” briefing to panel at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., March 1, 2011.
• “Creating Nuclear Transparency Through Science, Technology and Collaboration,” briefing to AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 20, 2011.
• “U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, 2011,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2011.

2010:

• “Senate Approval of New START Moves Nuclear Arms Control Forward,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 22, 2010.
• “Tac Nuke Numbers Confirmed?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 7, 2010.
• “Congress Receives Nuclear Warhead Plan,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 6, 2010.
• “New START Ratification: Seeing the Bigger Picture,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 3, 2010.
• “NATO Strategic Concept: One Step Forward and a Half Step Back,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 19, 2010.
• “Maintaining and Modernizing U.S. Nuclear Delivery Vehicles,” briefing to Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Luncheon, United States Senate Visitor Center, November 19, 2010.
• “New START Delay: Gambling With National Security,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 17, 2010.
• “Policy Responses to Nuclear Threats: Nuclear Posturing after the Cold War,” briefing to Global Threat Lector Series, International Studies Institute, University of New Mexico, November 4, 2010.
• “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2010,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2010. (PDF-version here)
• “U.S. and Russian Nuclear Forces; Status and Trends in Light of Smaller and Safer Article,” briefing to Panel on Smaller and Safer Article and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, October 13, 2010.
• “DF-21C Missile Deploys to Central China,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 28, 2010.
• “Indian Nuclear Forces, 2010,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2010. Now published by Sage Publications (gethtml format / pdf format).
• “China’s Bulava?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 17, 2010.
• “NATO Nuclear Weapons Policy: Mission and Forces at the Crossroads,” briefing to IGCC Public Policy and Nuclear Threats Program, University of California, San Diego, August 4, 2010.
• “Nuclear Commanders Endorse New START,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 28, 2010.
• “Global nuclear weapons inventories, 1945-2010,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2010.
• “Nuclear Plan Shows Cuts and Massive Investments,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 12, 2010.
• “World Nuclear Forces,” SIPRI Yearbook, June 2010.
• “U.S. nuclear forces, 2010,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May-Jun 2010.
• “The Nuclear Posture Review,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 8, 2010.
• Obama and the Nuclear War Plan, Federation of American Scientists, February 2010.
• “What if the Obama Administration Changes US Nuclear Policy: Potential Effects on the Strategic War Plan,” briefing to Quinnipiac University School of Law Center, February 19, 2010.
• “The U.S. Nuclear Posture Review 2010: Policy and Force Structure Issues,” briefing to the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, January 26, 2010.
• “Russian nuclear forces, 2010,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2010. A facility profile is available on the FAS Strategic Security Blog.

2009:

• “North Korea: FAS Says We Have Nukes,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 27, 2009.
• “Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2009“, Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2009. An accompanying blog is on the FAS Strategic Security Blog.
• “Japan’s Nuclear Secrets,” SEKAI Magazine, Tokyo, November 2009. English version here.
• “Pakistani Nuclear Forces 2009,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2009.
• “U.S. Nuclear Warheads 1945-2009,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2009.
• “START Follow-On: What SORT of Agreement?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 2, 2009.
• “Japan, TLAM/N, and Extended Deterrence,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 2, 2009.
• “Counter-Proliferation and U.S. Nuclear Strategy,” in David S. McDonough (ed.), US Nuclear Strategy and the Implications for Global Security (Dalhouse University: Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, 2009), pp. 13-34.
• “No U.S. Nukes in South Korea,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 14, 2009.
• “New Air Force Intelligence Report Available,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 9, 2009.
• “Lots of Hedging, Little Leading: An Analysis of the Congressional Strategic Posture Commission Report,” Arms Control Today, June 2009. 
• “North Korea’s Nuclear Test: Another Fizzle?,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 25, 2009.
• “Strategic Failure: Congressional Strategic Posture Commission Report,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 6, 2009.
  
• “From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence,” joint FAS-NRDC briefing to the MORS (Military Operations Online Society) Nuclear Online Workshop, May 5, 2009.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2009,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2009.
• “Nuclear Weapons Status and Options Under a START Follow-On Agreement,” briefing to ACA meeting held at Carnegie, April 27, 2009.
• “Concern Over Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 25, 2009.
• “Russian Foreign Ministry Responds to FAS/NRDC Study,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 23, 2009.
• “Russian Reactions to Minimal Deterrence Study,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 16, 2009.
• From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence: A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons, FAS/NRDC, April 8, 2009.
• “New Pentagon Report on Chinese Military Forces,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 26, 2009.
• “Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 25, 2009.
• “France’s Nuclear Victims (and Correct Number of Weapons),” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 24, 2009.
• “U.S. Strategic Submarine Patrols Continue at Near Cold War Tempo,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 16, 2009.
• “US-Chinese Anti-Submarine Cat and Mouse Game in South China Sea,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 9, 2009.
  
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces 2009,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2009.
• “Russian Strategic Submarine Patrols Rebound,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 17, 2009.
• “United States Reaches Moscow Treaty Warhead Limit Early,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 9, 2009.
  
• “Chinese Submarine Patrols Doubled in 2008,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 3, 2009.
• “Reviewing NATO’s Strategic Concept: Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe,” briefing to the Middle Powers Initiative Article VI Forum, Berlin, January 29, 2009.
• “China Defense White Paper Describes Nuclear Escalation,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 23, 2009.
  
• “The Minot Investigations: From Fixing Problems to Nuclear Advocacy,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 14, 2009.
  
• “Nuclear U.S. and Soviet/Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1959–2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2009.

2008:

• “Indian Nuclear Forces 2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2008.
• “Trends in Nuclear Forces and Doctrine,” presentation to Pugwash conference on Strengthening the Nonproliferation Treaty, Danish Parliament, November 17, 2008.
• “The Nuclear Posture of the United States,” in Magnus Eriksson and Kari M. Osland [eds.], Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Old Players, New Game – New Players, Old Game (Norwegian Defence Command & Staff College/Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, October 2008), pp. 53-66.
• “Nuclear Déjà Vu At Carnegie,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 30, 2009.
• “Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Secrecy and Confusion,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 21, 2008.
• “Nuclear Weapons Life Extension Programs and Modifications,” presentation to strategy meeting at Union of Concerned Scientists, October 16, 2008.
• “State Department Arms Control Board Declares Cold War on China,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 7, 2008.
• “Nuclear Policy Paper Embraces Clinton Era ‘Lead and Hedge’ Strategy,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 25, 2008.
• “The Role of Nuclear Weapons in Counterproliferation and Global Strike Scenarios,” presentation to the workshop What Role, If Any, For Nuclear Weapons, New Mexico Nuclear Study Group, Center for Science, Technology, and Policy, University of New Mexico, September 11, 2008.
• “French Nuclear Forces 2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2008.
• “China’s Xia-Class SSBN Leaves Dry Dock,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 3, 2008.
• “Presidential Candidates Need to See Beyond Warhead Numbers,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 30, 2008.
• “STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Global Strike Plan,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 25, 2008.
• “The RISOP is Dead – Long Live RISOP-Like Nuclear Planning,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, Juy 21, 2008.
• “Chinese Nuclear Forces 2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 2008.
• “World Nuclear Forces 2008,”in SIPRI Yearbook 2008.
• “Extensive Nuclear Missile Deployment Area Discovered in Central China,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 15, 2008.
• “Nukes in the Taiwan Crisis,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 13, 2008.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces 2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 2008.
• “New Chinese SSBN Deploys to Hainan Island,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, April 24, 2008.
• “Chinese Nuclear Arsenal Increased by 25 Percent Since 2006, Pentagon Report Indicates.” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 6, 2008.
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2008,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2008.
• “Nuclear Safety and the Saga of the Missing Bent Spear,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 22, 2008.
• Toward True Security, FAS/NRDC/UCS, February 2008.
• “Chinese Submarine Patrols Rebound in 2007, but Remain Limited,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, January 7, 2008.

2007:

• “White House Announces (Secret) Nuclear Weapons Cuts,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 18, 2007.
• “White House Guidance Led to New Nuclear Strike Plans Against Proliferators, Document Shows,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 5, 2007.
• “Nuclear Cruise Missiles,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2007.
• “A Response to Congresswoman Tauscher’s Article in Nonproliferation Review,” FAs Strategic Security Blog, October 29, 2007.
• “A Rebuttal of the U.S. Statement on Nuclear Weapons Alert, Dismantlements and Reductions,” October 19, 2007. Available via Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy.
• “US Says North Korean Test was Nuclear,” FAs strategic Security Blog, October 18, 2007.
• “A Closer Look at China’s New SSBNs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 15, 2007.
• “North Korea’s Bomb: A Technical Assessment,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 13, 2007 (edited October 16, 2007).
• “Reliable Replacement Warhead is a Symptom, Not the Solution,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 9, 2007.
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe After the Cold War, briefing to Nuclear Proliferation: History and Current Problems conference, Florence University, October 4-5, 2007
• “Two More Chinese SSBNs Spotted,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, October 4, 2007.
• “Flying Nuclear Bombs,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 5, 2007.
• “Article: U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Today and Tomorrow,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, September 5, 2007.
• “The U.S. nuclear stockpile, today and tomorrow,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2007.
• “Administration Increases Submarine Nuclear Warhead Production Plan,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 30, 2007.
• “Nuclear Arms Racing in the Post-Cold War Era: Who is the Smallest,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, August 22, 2007.
• “Targeting Missile Defense Systems,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 19, 2007.
• “China Reorganizes Northern Nuclear Missile Launch Sites,” FAS Strategic Security Program, July 12, 2007.
• “United States Removes Nuclear Weapons from German Base, Documents Indicate,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 9, 2007.
• “New Chinese Ballistic Missile Submarine Spotted,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 5, 2007.
• “U.S. Strategic War Planning After 9/11,” Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, July 2007.
• “World Nuclear Forces, 2007,” in SIPRI Yearbook 2007, Swedish International Peace and Research Institute, July 2007,
• “Indian Nuclear Forces, 2007,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2007.
• “Dismantling fewer, not more, nukes,” Los Angeles Times (letter to the editor), June 11, 2007.
• “Pentagon China Report Ignores Five SSBNs Projection,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 25, 2007.
• “Article: Pakistani Nuclear Forces, 2007,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 9, 2007.
• “Pakistani Nuclear Forces, 2007,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2007.
• “Article: Russia Nuclear Forces, 2007,” FAs Strategic Security Blog, April 13, 2007.
• “New U.S. Navy Report on Chinese Navy,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 22, 2007.
• “Small Fuze – Big Effect,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 14, 2007.
• “Air Force Decides to Retire Advanced Cruise Missile,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 7, 2007.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2007,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2007.
• “Divine Strake Experiment Canceled,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 22, 2007
• “China’s Submarine Fleet Continues Slow Patrol Rate,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 6, 2007.
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2007,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2007.

2006:

• “Nuclear Missile Testing Galore,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 22, 2006.
• “Where the Bombs are, 2006,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2006.
• Chinese Nuclear Forces and U.S. Nuclear War Planning, FAS/NRDC, November 2006.
• “US-China Commission Report Toned Down; Errors Remain,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 22, 2006.
• New and Traditional Security Threats to Russia, and the Utility of Nuclear Weapons, briefing to WSI-ISS meeting Emerging Nuclear Weapons Policies: An Opportunity to Increase Dialogue, Washington, D.C., October 12-13, 2006 (NOTE: PDF, 0.86 MB)
• “Nuclear Threats: Then and Now,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2006.
• “World Nuclear Forces,” in SIPRI Yearbook 2006, Swedish International Peace Research Institute, July 2006.
• “U.S. National Security Strategy and Pre-emption,” Défense Nationale (France), No. 7, July 2006. (English version is free but French version requires password.)
• “Pentagon Doubles Plan For New Warheads,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, July 27, 2006.
• “Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 2006,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the American Scientists, July/August 2006.
• “British Parliament Report Criticizes Government Refusal to Participate in Nuclear Deterrence Inquiry,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 30, 2006.
• “Efforts Underway in European Parliament Against US Nuclear Weapons in Europe,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, June 23, 2006.
• “NNSA Walking a Fine Line on Divine Strake,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, May 31, 2006.
• “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2006,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the American Scientists, May/June 2006.
• “Will The Right Nuclear Policy Please Stand Up!,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 29, 2006.
• “Senate To Hold Long-Overdue Hearing on New Global Strike Mission,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, March 27, 2006.
• Global Strike: A Chronology of the Pentagon’s New Offensive Strike Plan, FAS, March 15, 2006.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2006,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2006.
• “Nuclear Weapons Reassert Russian Might, Sort Of,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, February 24, 2006.
• “Chinese Nuclear Forces,” Imaging Notes, Winter 2006.
• “US Nuclear Forces, 2006,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February, 2006.

2005:*

• “Lawmakers Object To Nuclear Doctrine,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 6, 2005.
• “Global Strike Command Achieves Initial Operational Capability,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, December 1, 2005.
• “Preparing for the Failure of Deterrence,” Royal Canadian Military Institute SITREP, Vol. 65, No. 6, November/December 2005.
• “British Nuclear Forces, 2005,” Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December, 2005.
• “Rumsfeld: Europeans Keep Nukes In Europe,” FAS Strategic Security Blog, November 3, 2005.
• “New Doctrine Falls Short of Bush Pledge,” Arms Control Today, September 2005.
• “Indian Nuclear Forces, 2005,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October, 2005.
• “French Nuclear Forces, 2005,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2005.
• “World Nuclear Forces,” in SIPRI Yearbook 2005, Swedish International Peace and Research Institute, Stockholm, June 7, 2005.
• Nuclear Mission Creep, Briefing to Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, May 11, 2005.
• “Who’s Keeping the Nuclear Weapons in Europe?,” armscontrolwonk.com, May 2, 2005.
• “North Korea’s Nuclear Program, 2005,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2005.
• Briefing to members of the Belgian and Dutch Parliaments on the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe, March 1, 2005.
• Briefing to members of the German Parliament (Bundestag) on the deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe, February 25, 2005.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2005,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2005.
• U.S. Nuclear Weapons In Europe, Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2005.
• Missions for Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War, FAS, February 28, 2005.
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2005,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2005.

2004:*

• “U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe, 1954-2004,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2004.
• “What’s Behind Bush’s Nuclear Cuts,” Arms Control Today, October 2004.
• Nuclear Insecurity: A Critique of the Bush Administration’s Nuclear Weapons Policies, Natural Resources Defense Council, September 2004.
• “World Nuclear Forces,” in SIPRI Yearbook 2004, Swedish International Peace Research Institute, September 2004.
• “U.S. nuclear reductions,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August/September 2004.
• Briefing: “US Nuclear Policy and World Nuclear Situation,” presented to the 59th Gensuikin conference in Tokyo, August 1, 2004.
• Briefing: “U.S. Nuclear Posture in Korea,” presented to the 59th Gensuikin conference in Tokyo, August 1, 2004.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2004,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2004.
• “Too Many, Too Slow: The Bush administration’s stockpile reduction plan,” Natural Resources Defense Council, Fact Sheet, June 2004.
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2004,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2004.
• “Nuclear Disclosure: A Danger to National Security?,” PRIME No. 19, (PRIME, International Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo), March 2004 (see PDF-version).
• “The Protection Paradox,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2004.
• “Dismantling U.S. Nuclear Warheads,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2004.

2003:*

• “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2003,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2003.
• “Nuclear Pursuits,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2003.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2003,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2003.
• “World Nuclear Forces as of January 2003,” in SIPRI Yearbook 2004, Swedish International Peace Research Institute, July 2003. (Full pdf-version available here).
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2003,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2003.
• “North Korea’s Nuclear Program, 2003,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2003.
• Changing Targets II, Greenpeace International, April 2003.
• “The B61 Family of Bombs,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2003.

2002:*

• “Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945-2002,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2002.
• “Israeli Nuclear Forces, 2002,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2002.
• “Preemptive Posturing,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2002.
• “Russian Nuclear Forces, 2002,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2002.
• “Nuclear arms agreement is step backward,” Oakland Tribune, May 26, 2002.
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2002,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2002.
• “India’s Nuclear Forces, 2002,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2002.
• “Pakistan’s Nuclear Forces, 2001,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002.

2001:*

• “British Nuclear Forces, 2001,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2001.
• “The Unruly Hedge: Cold War Thinking at the Crawford Summit,” Arms Control Today, December 2001.
• “Chinese Nuclear Forces, 2001,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2001.
• “French Nuclear Forces, 2001,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2001.
• “U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2001,” NRDC Nuclear Notebook, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2001.
• The Matrix of Deterrence: U.S. Strategic Command Force Structure Studies, The Nautilus Institute, Berkeley, CA, May 2001.

2000 and earlier:*

• U.S. Nuclear Strategy Reform in the 1990s, The Nautilus Institute, Berkeley, CA, March 2000. This report was also translated and published by the International Peace Research Institute at the Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo.
• “Secrecy on a Sliding Scale,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 1999, p. 33.
• “NATO Nuclear Policy: Back To The Future,” The Monitor, Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia, September 1999.
• Japan Under the Nuclear Umbrella: U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War Planning in Japan During the Cold War, The Nautilus Institute, Berkeley, CA, July 1999.
• The Post Cold War SIOP and Nuclear Warfare Planning: A Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC, January 1999.
• “Dangerous Directions,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 1998.
• Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Nuclear Strategy, British American Security Information Council (BASIC), Washington, DC, March 1998.
• “Targets of Opportunity,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 1997.
• “The USA and Counter-Proliferation: A New and Dubious Role for U.S. Nuclear Weapons,” Security Dialogue, Oslo, Norway, December 1996.
• The 520 Forgotten Bombs: How U.S. and British Nuclear Weapons in Europe Undermine the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Greenpeace International, April 18, 1995.
• Changing Targets: Nuclear Doctrine from the Cold to the Third World, Greenpeace International, March 1, 1995.

In 1994 and 1990 Kristensen also co-authored the following two Neptune Papers monographs published by Greenpeace International:

• Aircraft Carriers: The Limits of Nuclear Power, Neptune Papers No. 7, Greenpeace, Washington, D.C., June 1994 (pdf 1.9 MB).
  The report analyzes the performance of nuclear-powered versus cheaper oil-powered aircraft carriers and compare actual performance with the U.S. Navy’s claims of unique benefits from nuclear propulsion. A review in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings called the study “invaluable” to the assessment of the U.S. Navy’s carrier building program and stressed that the report “should be read by everyone in the administration, Department of Defense, and Congress who will participate in decisions related to future carrier programs.” The report’s conclusions were reaffirmed by the U.S. General Accounting Office’s report Navy Aircraft Carriers: Cost-Effectiveness of Conventionally and Nuclear-Powered Carriers from 1998.

• U.S. Naval Nuclear Weapons in Sweden, Neptune Papers No. 6, Greenpeace, Washington, D.C., October 1990 (pdf 3.4 MB).
  The report investigates Swedish non-nuclear policy and the nuclear history of U.S. Navy ship visits to Swedish (and other Scandinavian) ports during the Cold War. The report documents how U.S. warships as a matter of routine brought nuclear weapons into Swedish ports despite the country’s ban against such weapons. The U.S. government turned down a request from the Swedish government to comment on the findings and the Swedish ruling party subsequently decided to enforce its non-nuclear policy during port visits, similar to that of New Zealand. Before the decision was carried out, the U.S. government suddenly announced in September 1991 that all tactical nuclear weapons would be removed from ships and submarines.

Other publications worth listing that I contributed to:

• William M. Arkin and Joshua Handler, Naval Accidents 1945-1988, Neptune Papers No. 3, Greenpeace/Institute for Policy Studies, June 1989 (0.6 MB).
  The report documents 1, 276 accidents of the major navies of the world with a focus on those that involved nuclear-armed or nuclear-propelled vessels. This includes ten accidents where nuclear weapons and/or nuclear reactors were lost at sea, as well as hundreds more where nuclear-armed vessels were involved in accidents.

 

* The Nuclear Information Project formally merged with FAS in November 2005, but earlier publications are included here to provide access to information researched by the current staff.