A fissile material cutoff treaty would ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons purposes. Fissile materials, principally highly enriched uranium (HEU) and plutonium, are the essential ingredients for building nuclear weapons. The effective control and elimination of fissile materials is an essential step toward effective non-proliferation and a precondition for nuclear disarmament. As […]
The fallacies of the arms control debate in times of tension
By Farah Sonde As the Center’s Communications Associate, I try to absorb as much of the current dialogue on arms control as humanly possible. The tense situation resulting from Russia’s use of nuclear threats to facilitate its aggression has set the arms control debate on fire in a way our field of work hasn’t seen in years, […]
Fact Sheet: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones
Nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) are regional agreements that ban the development, manufacturing, control, possession, testing, stationing and transport of nuclear weapons in a given area. These prohibitions are based on treaties that commit signatories to international verification, control and compliance systems. The aim of these accords is to strengthen global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament norms. There […]
Non-Proliferation is Not Dead
By Casey Kitchens I had the pleasure of attending the Fourth Annual Betty Lou Hummel Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins SAIS last month. The speaker, a former professor of mine, was U.S. Ambassador Mary Ann Peters. The title of her lecture: Why America Matters. I’d known from personal experience that Ambassador Peters feels strongly about […]
2022 Nuclear Posture Review
On October 27, 2022, the Biden administration released the unclassified version of its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The document states that nuclear weapons provide a unique deterrent that no other element of U.S. military power can replace and that a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent undergirds all U.S. national defense priorities. The NPR […]
