China began a nuclear weapons program in the 1950s with significant help from the Soviet Union, which contributed advisors and technical equipment. When Sino-Soviet relations cooled at the end of that decade, China moved forward on its own and successfully tested its first nuclear weapon in October 1964. China is the last of the five nuclear weapon […]
Asia
Myanmar should finally come clean about its chemical weapons past—with US help
Gregory Koblentz, member of the Scientists Working Group on Chemical and Biological Security, co-authored a piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Myanmar’s chemical weapons past. In November 2012, US President Barack Obama arrived at Aung San Suu Kyi’s mansion, the place where the iconic democracy activist had spent much of the last […]
World nuclear arsenal sizes
There are nine nuclear-armed countries worldwide with about 14,000 nuclear weapons between them. The United States and Russia together have more than 90 percent of those weapons.
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) is an intergovernmental organization whose members implement voluntary export controls on missiles capable of delivering nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, as well as related technology. As of February 2017, 35 nations are members of the MTCR. Objective The MTCR was founded in 1987 by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United […]
Why Does Trump Want to Spend Billions on New Nukes?
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle spoke with The Daily Beast about President Trump’s proposed increase in the nuclear weapons budget. “It would be remarkable if NNSA could get to 20 pits per year,” Phil Coyle, a nuclear expert with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C., told The Daily Beast. But in […]
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