Unless otherwise specified, all information in this chart comes from Kristensen’s and Norris’s Status of World Nuclear Forces 2017 CHART: Global Nuclear Weapons Inventories 2017 Deployed Non-deployed Retired Total United States[i] ~1,740a ~2,260 ~2,800 ~6,800 Russia[ii] ~1,950a ~2,350 ~2,700 ~7,000 France ~280 ~10 * ~290 United Kingdom ~120 ~95 * ~215 China 0 […]
Policy Analyst James McKeon on Voice of America
To watch the video, click here, and to read the article click here. Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation policy analyst James McKeon spoke to Voice of America (VOA) News on Secretary Rex Tillerson’s comments on North Korea. McKeon recommended direct talks without preconditions with North Korea. To watch the video, click here, and to […]
Center Contributor Dr. Jim Walsh on Fox News
Watch the video here. MIT expert and Center contributor Dr. Jim Walsh spoke to Fox News about Secretary Tillerson’s visit to Asia and his comments on North Korea. Watch the video here.
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle and Scoville Fellow Bernadette Stadler’s op-ed in The Hill
Read the full op-ed here. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), the ballistic missile defense system that the United States recently began constructing in South Korea, is intended to protect the South from North Korean aggression. Instead, it is likely that the system will antagonize China — whose cooperation will be necessary to defuse tensions […]
Center Contributor Dr. Jim Walsh quoted in The Christian Science Monitor
Read the full piece here. “Presumably this was directed at the Chinese as much as anyone else,” says James Walsh, an expert in nuclear security issues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. “There’s this Washington consensus that we need to threaten the Chinese so they get on board with pressuring North Korea more,” […]
