Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Less than one year left to save New START treaty

Today, with US-Russian relations at a post-Cold War low, and as both countries modernize their nuclear arsenals, the threat of a new nuclear arms race underscores the need for sensible non-proliferation and arms control cooperation.

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Test your nuclear weapons knowledge!

Don’t bomb this quiz about nuclear weapons! What do you know about U.S. and global policy?

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Abandoning the Iran nuclear deal was reckless and dangerous

Our experts recommend that the United States returns to compliance with the JCPOA as it is the only responsible pathway to verifiably constrain Iran’s nuclear program.

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The idea is simple: we don’t need to use nuclear weapons first

We can protect ourselves and our allies without having to start a nuclear war. Learn what a No First Use policy would do

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Fact Sheet: The United States Nuclear Arsenal

The nuclear age began on July 16, 1945, when the United States tested the first atomic bomb. Less than a month later, the United States would become the only nation to use nuclear weapons in a conflict, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At its peak, the United States had more than 31,000 nuclear weapons in its stockpile. Through various […]

Summary: FY 2021 Senate National Defense Authorization Bill (S. 4049)

Top Line Funding Totals $740.5 billion: Total funding supported in the bill:  $636.4 billion: Department of Defense discretionary base $  25.9 billion: Department of Energy discretionary base $  69.0 billion: Overseas Contingency Operations $    9.1 billion: Defense-related activities outside the bill’s jurisdiction  Select Nuclear and Related Weapons Programs A. Ohio Replacement Strategic Submarine (Columbia Class) $2.9 […]

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula underscore the need for new negotiations

By Zach Glass, Policy Intern On June 16, North Korea blew up the Kaesong Liaison Office, which was built in September 2018 to foster inter-Korean dialogue. This quite literal deterioration of Korean relations occurred one week after Pyongyang announced that it had severed all lines of communication with South Korea, which North Korean state media claimed was the result […]

Hill recoils at proposed cut to Pentagon anti-pandemic effort

Scientists Working Group member Greg Koblentz was quoted in Roll Call about potential cuts to the Biological Threat Reductions Program budget. Gregory Koblentz, an associate professor at George Mason University and director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at the university’s Schar School of Policy and Government, said the Pentagon’s biological threats program increases America’s warning […]

Nuclear testing: Just say no

By Abby Pokraka Adding to the list of things that make it feel like the world is falling apart, according to reports, the Trump Administration recently discussed conducting an underground nuclear test for the first time since 1992. Policy experts, grassroots organizations and citizens from across the country were quick to condemn this action. Apparently, even the National Nuclear Security Administration thought it was […]

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