RUSSIA CONTINUES NUCLEAR THREATS, POSTPONES U.S. TALKS Russian president Vladimir Putin continues to demonstrate why nuclear weapons in his hands, or anyone’s, are a danger to the world. No one has dropped a nuclear bomb on another country since 1945, but Putin can’t resist implied or direct threats to use nuclear weapons in his failing […]
Op-ed: ‘Old Think’ Is Driving U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Senior Fellow John Isaacs wrote for The National Interest about the Pentagon’s counting problem, Cold War mentality, nuclear weapons and China. The dawn of the nuclear age changed every aspect of military calculations except for, unfortunately, the Pentagon’s counting skills. The United States continues to bear the consequences of this failure every day. With the […]
Final Summary: Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (Senate Amendment to H.R. 7776)
Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY23 Request FY23 requested levels come from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book Numbers may not add due to rounding Total National Defense Discretionary Spending Authorization (050) *Does not include mandatory spending or any emergency spending, […]
Putin says Russia could adopt US preemptive strike concept
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with the Associated Press about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest nuclear threat. “He doesn’t quite say we’re going to launch nuclear weapons, but he wants the dialogue in the U.S. and Europe to be, ’The longer this war goes on, the greater the threat of nuclear weapons might be […]
Why Managing the Nuclear Threat in Northeast Asia Matters
By Matthew Teasdale Overtaken by the war in Ukraine, bellicism on the Korean peninsula has taken a back seat in the international media, despite the very real rising nuclear threat. North Korea has fired more than 70 missiles this year – more than any previous year – including two purported intercontinental ballistic missiles that have […]