While the global inventory of nuclear weapons has been significantly reduced since the Cold War, there are still more than 13,000 nuclear weapons in nine different countries — more than 90% of which belong to the United States and Russia. The United States is committed to spending up to $1.5 trillion over the next 30 years on an ambitious nuclear modernization plan updating all three legs — air, sea, and ground — of the nuclear triad.
Recent Analysis on Nuclear Weapons
- China Is Still Not the New Soviet Union: Top U.S. Military Leaders Affirm U.S. Lead Over China July 22, 2021
- Fact Sheet: Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles Are Wasteful June 24, 2021
- U.S. Navy Funds New Submarine-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile Biden Called “A Bad Idea” June 2, 2021
- Fiscal Year 2022 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book June 1, 2021
- Andrei Sakharov And The Massive ‘Tsar Bomba’ That Turned Him Against Nukes May 20, 2021
- STRATCOM Commander Makes a Misleading Sales Pitch before Congress May 5, 2021
- New START by the Numbers April 21, 2021
- Op-Ed: Biden Should Sink This Proposed Nuclear Weapon April 20, 2021
- Fact sheet: U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense April 2, 2021
- The U.S. Nuclear Inventory February 23, 2021
