What’s underneath the shelters over China’s suspected silo construction sites? Image © 2021 Maxar Technologies [Update: Some images have temporarily been taker down because Maxar does not allow their…
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From the Blogs Pentagon Portrays Nuclear Modernization As Response to Russia: The final defense budget of the Obama administration effectively crowns this administration as…
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On July 16, 1945, the United States tested the world’s first nuclear device in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico, ushering in the Atomic Age.
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NGOs AND THEIR ROLES IN THE VERIFICATION OF NUCLEAR AGREEMENTS – APRIL 2016 After finishing up his second MacArthur Foundation-sponsored research project on issues…
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Click on image to download PDF-version of full briefing Some Missile Numbers Do Not Match Recent DOD China Report U.S. Indo-Pacific Command…
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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…
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Stay Tuned… …For a special Summer/Fall edition of the Public Interest Report, FAS’s online, quarterly science and security journal featuring articles by members of the FAS network on issues related…
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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…
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For the first time ever, a nuclear-armed state accidentally launched a missile at another nuclear-armed state. How did this happen?
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