By Matthew Teasdale In response to the Russian decision to suspend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the Biden administration last month publicly released American nuclear data. President Vladimir Putin previously halted his country’s compliance and data transfers to coerce Washington into stopping aid shipments to Ukraine. These statistics include information on the […]
Thwarting nuclear terrorism through data-sharing
By Sergey Shkolnikov* The current state of international relations is flush with concerns about democratic institutions floundering and “populist, nationalist and xenophobic strands of backlash politics” extending to the issues of arms control and nuclear non-proliferation. Recent nuclear negotiations have stalled, and the venerated Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is perceived as weaker than ever. These […]
A book, nuclear weapons, means and ends
By John Erath One of the benefits of working at the Center is the opportunity to collaborate with some of the top experts in the field, people who bring knowledge, insight and a variety of different viewpoints to discussions of international security. Earlier this year, I was privileged to chair a panel including one such […]
Fact Sheet: Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT)
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 […]
Fact Sheet: Project Sapphire
Project Sapphire was a successful covert operation that took place in 1994 and transferred highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Kazakhstan to the United States. At the time that Project Sapphire was undertaken, there was widespread concern that loose fissile material in the former Soviet states could spark a crisis. The project was a joint effort […]
