By Sophia Macartney Two non-nuclear weapon states are acquiring nuclear-powered submarines. The Australia-UK-US (AUKUS) alliance is providing Australia with nuclear-powered submarines by the 2040s, and Brazil has been seeking nuclear-powered submarines since the 1980s. Pessimists say AUKUS is a proliferation risk in contradiction of the spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and could set […]
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Fact Sheet: The American-South Korean Security Alliance
The alliance between Seoul and Washington dates back to the opening days of the Cold War. Since the growth of Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions in the 1990s, the alliance has increasingly evolved to prioritize management of the North Korean nuclear threat. Different Korean and American administrations have tried strategies including bargaining, military threats, strategic patience and […]
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, […]
Fiscal Year 2024 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book
FY23 enacted levels come from FY24 President’s Budget documents and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Final Summary: Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY23 Enacted Level unless otherwise specified. Numbers may not add up due to rounding Total National Defense Discretionary Spending Request […]
Evolving Threats, Un-evolving Solutions: Geo-Politicization of Export Control Policy
by Sophy Macartney* Export control regimes are one of the cornerstones of global non-proliferation efforts, aiming to keep potentially dangerous technologies out of the hands of possible aggressors. Since the Cold War, export control regimes have aimed for inclusiveness and avoided targeting specific states while including states with problematic export histories in hopes they would […]
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