What did North Korea just test? North Korea tested a “tactical guided weapon” Wednesday, marking its first weapons test since November. South Korea said it believes the guided weapon is likely for use in ground combat and is not a ballistic missile, making it a conventional weapon not subject to international sanctions. Senior […]

    What happened at the second North Korea summit, and what happens next? Competing narratives have emerged following the abrupt end to the second summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, write Executive Director John Tierney and Policy Analyst James McKeon. This underscores the complexity of nuclear negotiations. Negotiators must now look forward, not backward. Both […]

    Trump Administration announces withdrawal from INF Treaty; is New START next? We have known this move was likely since October, but the advance notice doesn’t make it any easier to handle. The Reagan-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is a staple of modern arms control agreements, and is one of two major nuclear […]

    Trump Administration Releases Missile Defense Review On Thursday, the Trump Administration released its long-awaited Missile Defense Review (MDR), the guiding document for the administration’s plan for the systems that, among other things, are supposed to protect the United States from incoming nuclear missiles. As Executive Director John Tierney explains, the MDR lays the groundwork […]

    Featured Nukes of Hazard Podcast: 50 Years Later In 1963, President John F. Kennedy feared that 25 countries could possess nuclear weapons by the 1970’s. Today, nine countries have them. Many experts attribute this to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an agreement that turns 50 this year. We explore the Treaty and its future […]