By Connor Murray The Pentagon recently announced plans to develop a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, the B61-13. This proposed bomb would, as the name suggests, be the 13th variant of the B61 and “provide the President with additional options against certain harder and large-area military targets.” The weapon would be delivered […]
The China Dilemma
By John Erath Earlier this year, for the first time since the Cold War, it was announced that the total number of nuclear weapons in the world rose in 2022. Largely, the reason for the increase was China’s rapid construction of additional weapons. Although the United States and Russia are undergoing modernizations of their nuclear […]
2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons
John Gilbert, Senior Science Fellow of the Center’s Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security, was quoted in Vox on the destruction of the United States’ chemical weapons stockpile. “A lot of this happened because the CWC is one of a kind: a near-universal disarmament treaty that has real heft behind it. The OPCW, […]
‘Oppenheimer’: Questions From the Outside
Recently, I spent two weeks outside the Beltway, in that portion of America that, strange as it may seem, is not captivated by the appropriations process and cannot instantly cite the precise size of the Republican majority in the House. Most of the time, these are opportunities to get away from work and thinking about […]
Summary: Comparison of Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2670/S. 2226) as passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate
Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY24 Request FY24 requested levels other than the toplines come from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Fiscal Year 2024 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book Numbers may not add due to rounding Total National Defense Discretionary Spending (050) *Does not include mandatory spending DOD […]
