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
- Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 2792) October 21, 2021
- Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4350) as Passed October 7, 2021
- NATO 2030: What the new Strategic Concept should say about nuclear weapons September 30, 2021
- Breaking down the jargon: nuclear programs, uranium and plutonium September 1, 2021
- Fact Sheet: The Civilian and Military Characteristics of Plutonium August 26, 2021
- Fact Sheet: Uranium Enrichment: For Peace or for Weapons August 26, 2021
- Fact Sheet: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle August 26, 2021
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe August 18, 2021
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Plutonium Pit Production August 16, 2021
- China Is Still Not the New Soviet Union: Top U.S. Military Leaders Affirm U.S. Lead Over China July 22, 2021
