On the radar: Two of the most expensive weapons in US history; New IAEA report; Missile defense is doomed; NATO’s expensive relics; Jenkins and Dalton on Iran; and turning INF lemons into lemonade.
On the radar: Nukes in Europe drain resources; Little appetite for removal now; No longer relevant; Iran talks resume; DRC ratifies CTBT; MOX production delayed again; and Don’t tell anyone about Israel’s nukes.
On the radar: Arms control, budgets and European security; Banning hypersonic missiles; IAEA probe stalls; Arms control retrenchment; Russian nuclear exercise; Missile defense is a poor investment; the Bomber wars; and a How-to for turning Syrian WMD into garbage.
On the radar: Former generals on INF, New START; Russia to update military doctrine; Formula for an Iran deal; Optimism from Zarif; Sanctions enforced, reaction muted; Rouhani’s domestic calculus; and Survival editor responds to the firing of James Doyle.
On the radar: Getting to yes; 16,300 nuclear warheads; Delicate INF diplomacy; Arak modifications; Iran getting IR8; 65 years ago in Kazakhstan; and Global Thermonuclear War is not a game.
On the radar: Strategy and optics; Expensive risks; Who might they deter; IAEA and Iran making progress; Iran and oil companies consider a deal; Questioning the need for new plutonium pits; Shaking up the nuclear field; Radiation hunters; and the Need for nuclear restraint in Asia.
On the radar: Defense budget stalls ICBM replacement; Not in Maine’s backyard; Navy takes no-nonsense approach to nuclear cheating; Talbott on Putanism; James Doyle appeals DOE firing; Six things nuclear wonks fear most, and “The Beast” goes to Pyongyang.
On the radar: Senators call out backwards budget priorities; IAEA and Iran making headway; the Pits; About NATO’s nukes; Intellectual freedom at National Labs; Israel’s expanding nuclear capability; Is arms control really dead; and the Tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi.