Nuclear Weapons

While the global stockpile of nuclear weapons has been significantly reduced since the Cold War, there are still an estimated 15,000 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

• The Day That Changed the World Forever July 16, 2019
• There is no such thing as a small nuclear war July 12, 2019
• FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell June 28, 2019
• Nuclear weapons: experts alarmed by new Pentagon ‘war-fighting’ doctrine June 19, 2019
• Some Key Elements of House Armed Services Committee Draft FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 2500) June 10, 2019
• Putin moves to leave weapons treaty as US accuses Russia of nuclear violations May 30, 2019
• Russia ‘probably’ violating nuclear test ban treaty, top US official says May 29, 2019
• Fiscal Year 2020 Defense Spending Briefing Book March 29, 2019
• Debate: Does withdrawal from the INF Treaty harm U.S. national security interests? March 4, 2019
• Alexandra Bell, policy director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: “It seems they did not learn the lessons of the Cold War” February 18, 2019