Missiles & Space

Updating NATO's Nuclear Policy

NATO is finishing a review of its Strategic Concept before the Lisbon Summit next month.

October 12, 2010 - By Reid Pauly
Kimball: Set Politics Aside and Ratify New START

Following a bipartisan vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (14-4) two weeks ago, the New START treaty moves toward a vote by the full Senate. However, ratification of New START appears caught in partisan gridlock in the Senate.

September 29, 2010 - By Sarah Beth Cross
The Path to 1,000 U.S. and Russian Nuclear Weapons

In the next round of nuclear negotiations, the United States and Russia "need to pursue much deeper cuts in their nuclear stockpiles and agree to a lower level of launch readiness." That's the argument that Bruce Blair, Victor Esin, Matthew McKinzie, Vakery Yarynich and Pavel Zolotarev make in "Smaller and Safer: A New Plan for Nuclear Postures," an article in the September/ October 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs.

August 26, 2010 - By Kelly Bronk
Burma and Nuclear Weapons

News broke today of a new report detailing Burma's potential nuclear weapons ambitions.

June 4, 2010 - By Elise Connor
Expert Review Questions Effectiveness of Missile Defense Plan

May 19, 2010 - By Ploughshares Fund
Watching Iran's Missiles

May 13, 2010 - By Deborah Bain
Nuclear Pre-Game Huddle

Get ready to dance. If you like the excitement of March Madness, you're going to love April. It will begin possibly the busiest four months in arms control history -- packed with a new Nuclear Posture Review, START Treaty, Nuclear Security Summit, and the Review Conference to the Nonproliferation Treaty. It is an unprecedented nuclear line-up. But before charging onto the court, let's review the game plan.

March 17, 2010 - By Anonymous
Missile Madness

The Heritage Foundation's film about nuclear threats, "33 Minutes", is a modern day Reefer Madness, the 1930s film on the descent into insanity and criminality of

February 5, 2010 - By Anonymous
Do Neocons Comprehend English?

Nuclear blogger Max Bergmann, writing for the Center for American Progress' Wonk Room, corrected Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Frank Gaffney’s assertion that last week’s

January 28, 2010 - By Anonymous
U.S. to deploy missiles near Russia

President Obama sent National Security Adviser James L. Jones and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen to Moscow on Wednesday to clear the last hurdles to a new nuclear pact, but some observers worry that U.S.

January 21, 2010 - By Anonymous