While the global stockpile of nuclear weapons has been significantly reduced since the Cold War, there are still an estimated 14,000 nuclear weapons in nine different countries — 93% of which belong to the United States and Russia. The United States is committed to spending up to $1 trillion over the next thirty years on an ambitious nuclear modernization plan updating all three legs — air, sea, and ground — of the nuclear triad.
Recent Analysis on Nuclear Weapons
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Modernization: Costs & Constraints January 22, 2021
- Joe Biden’s Plan to Extend Russia Nuclear Treaty Praised by Arms Control Groups January 21, 2021
- Fact Sheet: The Nuclear Triad January 21, 2021
- Conference Outcomes of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act December 4, 2020
- Shifting the Nuclear Narrative August 5, 2020
- Trinity’s atomic blast changed the world July 16, 2020
- Why Restarting Explosive Nuclear Testing is Dangerous and Unnecessary June 8, 2020
- Talk of reviving nuclear tests raises alarm June 1, 2020
- Utah downwinders denounce Trump’s talk of restarting nuclear tests May 26, 2020
- ‘NOTHING SHORT OF APPALLING’: Statement from John Tierney in Response to Considered Return to Nuclear Testing May 22, 2020
