Updated December 2024 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) began its nuclear weapons program in the 1950s with significant help from the Soviet Union, which contributed advisors and technical equipment. When Sino-Soviet relations cooled at the end of that decade, China moved forward on its own and successfully tested its first nuclear weapon in October […]
Op-ed: America Needs Immediate (Socially Distanced) Negotiations with North Korea
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell wrote an op-ed in The National Interest explaining the need for talks between the United States and North Korea to resume immediately, even during Covid-19. As has been noted for many months, the Trump Administration’s comically over-produced and substantively underwhelming attempts at nuclear diplomacy with North Korea have yielded no […]
Congressional Testimony: FMWG members make recommendations for strengthening U.S. nuclear security policy
view as pdf (preferred for reading charts and end notes) Public Testimony for the Record FY 2021 House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies FY 2021 Public Witness Hearing March 31, 2020 Testimony: Nickolas Roth, Director, Nuclear Security Program, Stimson Center Matthew Bunn, Professor of Practice, Harvard University William […]
Women have protested nuclear weapons throughout history
By Isabel Martinez While many festivities celebrating Women’s History Month have been rightly canceled out of concern for the safety of our communities, we can still acknowledge and commend work that women have done to make this world a safer place. For generations, American women have fostered public support in an effort to reduce nuclear threats […]
Fact Sheet: Israel’s Nuclear Inventory
Israel’s assumed nuclear weapons program, and the history surrounding it, is characterized by ambiguity. Thus far, that ambiguity has been effectively tolerated. Any formal recognition or acknowledgement of Israel’s weapons program could upset the current uneasy balance in the region, potentially spurring nuclear proliferation across the Middle East. Israel’s policy of nuclear opacity makes analysis […]
