Review of NASIC Report 2017: Nuclear Force Developments June 30, 2017
Click on image to download copy of report. Note: NASIC later published a corrected version, available here By Hans M. Kristensen…
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B-52 Bomber No Longer Delivers Nuclear Gravity Bombs May 25, 2017
A B-52H bomber conducts a B61-7 nuclear gravity bomb drop test at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. Image: NNSA By Hans M. Kristensen The venerable B-52H Stratofortress long-range bomber…
Read moreBritish Defense Review Ends Nuclear Reductions Era March 17, 2021
By Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda [Article updated May 11, 2021] The United Kingdom announced yesterday that it has decided to abandon…
Read moreChinese DF-26 Missile Launchers Deploy To New Missile Training Area January 21, 2019
By Hans M. Kristensen [Updated Jan 31, 2019] Earlier this month, the Chinese government outlet Global Times published a report that a People’s Liberation Army Rocket…
Read moreWidespread Blurring of Satellite Images Reveals Secret Facilities December 10, 2018
A Russian mapping service has selectively obscured political and military facilities in both Israel and Turkey, which has had the unintended effect of revealing their exact locations to the world.
Read moreUSAF Plans To Expand Nuclear Bomber Bases November 17, 2020
The US Air Force is working to expand the number of strategic bomber bases that can store nuclear weapons from two today to five by the 2030s. The plan will also significantly expand the number of bomber bases that store nuclear cruise missiles from one base today to all five bombers bases by the 2030s.
Read more118th Congress: Resilient Agriculture, Society & Environment January 12, 2023
Over the past several years, instability has been a national and global constant. The COVID-19 pandemic upended supply chains and production systems. Floods, hurricanes, heat waves, droughts,…
Read more118th Congress: Education & Workforce January 12, 2023
Amid growing global competition in emerging technologies, increasing adoption of automation and artificial intelligence, and economic and national security trends upended by the pandemic, the United States…
Read moreCount-Down Begins For No-Brainer: Extend New START Treaty February 5, 2020
One year from today, on February 5, 2021, the New START treaty will expire, unless the United States and Russia act to extend the last nuclear arms control agreement for…
Read moreAfter Trump Secrecy, Biden Administration Restores US Nuclear Weapons Transparency October 6, 2021
The Biden administration yesterday afternoon declassified the number of nuclear weapons the United States possesses. The act reverses the secrecy of the Trump administration, which denied release of the number for three years, and restores the nuclear transparency of the Obama administration.
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