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August 10, 2016

U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe

By: Erin Connolly The recent upheaval in Turkey has highlighted an uncomfortable fact: The United States holds approximately 160 tactical nuclear weapons outside of its own borders. In fact, all of these nonstrategic nuclear weapons are deployed in Europe at six bases in five countries, including Turkey. In theory, these weapons are in place to […]

Posted in: Nuclear Security, Nuclear Weapons, Nukes of Hazard blog, United States

July 26, 2016

Maintaining the Treaty on Open Skies

By Abigail Stowe-Thurston President Eisenhower first proposed the idea for an Open Skies agreement in 1955 as a confidence building measure between the United States and Soviet Union. Although no treaty came of the original negotiations, Gorbachev’s policies of openness and transparency in the 1980s made the USSR a more agreeable negotiating partner when George […]

Posted in: Non-Proliferation, Nukes of Hazard blog

June 17, 2016

Cooperation Amidst Conflict: The Importance of Common Ground in U.S.-Russia Relations

By: Abigail Stowe-Thurston The video is distressing: two Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft fly aggressively toward a U.S. naval destroyer in the Baltic Sea, missing the ship by just 30 feet. No, this wasn’t a Cold War encounter – it’s footage from April 12, 2016, an emblem of the current geopolitical strain between the United […]

Posted in: Nukes of Hazard blog, Russia, United States

May 27, 2016

The Second Coming of MIRVs

By: Cassandra Peterson One of President Obama’s overlooked nuclear weapons milestones is altering the U.S. arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to carry only one warhead. Previously, U.S. Minuteman 3 ICBMs could carry three multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs). This “de-MIRVing” process, according to the Obama Administration, allows the U.S. to “enhance the stability […]

Posted in: Asia, China, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Nukes of Hazard blog

May 10, 2016

Hiroshima: A Nuclear Past and Future

After weeks of speculation, it’s finally been confirmed: President Obama will make a visit to Hiroshima after the G-7 Summit later this month.

Posted in: New National Security, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons Spending, Nukes of Hazard blog, Pentagon Budget, Russia, Security Spending

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