arms control

How China's Nuclear Arms Buildup Will Make a Tripolar World, and What it Means for Peace

by Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr.

"There is nothing the United States can do to prevent China from joining it and Russia as the world’s top nuclear powers, but there are things that U.S. strategists and defense planners can do to mitigate the consequences."

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb

by Alex Wellerstein

Read a detailed account of the moment in the Cold War when the United States and Soviet Union contemplated, then developed and tested, nuclear weapons of horrifying power. 

It's Time for a "Don't Trust, Do Verify" US-Russia Cybersecurity Treaty

by Glenn C. Altschuler and Justin Lifflander

The Reagan-Gorbachev summit meetings that yielded the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and established mutual weapons monitoring weren't expected to succeed, but offer hope that negotiations between Biden and Putin could advance progress toward needed mutual cybersecurity action. 

Missile Defense is Not a Substitute for Arms Control

by John Tierney and Samuel M. Hickey

A former Congressman and an arms control analyst argue that the key goal of upcoming meetings between Biden and Putin is nuclear arms control; the United States can afford to use its technological superiority in missile defense as a chip to ensure this greater goal. 

The Fateful Choice: Nuclear Arms Race or Nuclear Weapons-Free World

by Lawrence Wittner

Nuclear-armed nations face a choice: to push ahead with a wasteful course that raises the risk of nuclear war, or to lead toward a world without nuclear weapons. 

Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition?

by Lawrence Wittner

People who want to end the nightmare of nuclear destruction that has haunted the world since 1945 should consider widening the popular appeal of nuclear weapons abolition by strengthening the UN’s ability to provide international security.

Will the Nuclear Powers Ever Be Willing to Forgo Their Nuclear Weapons?

by Lawrence Wittner

The collapse of the Soviet Union has paradoxically created a climate where the perceived danger of nuclear weapons has waned, taking energy from a growing movement toward arms control and disarmament. 

The Great Evasion

by Lawrence Wittner

Joe Biden should reverse the nation's long dereliction of duty in leading the world toward nuclear disarmament and reducing the threat of nuclear war.

George Shultz Speaks Out for Renewing U.S. Leadership Overseas

The long-serving Secretary of State's new book laments the unwillingness of current leadership to embrace the international cooperation and diplomacy needed to solve the world's largest problems.   

It’s Been 32 Years since the Conclusion of the INF Treaty Yet Arms Control Is Still Vital

by Stephan Kieninger

It is imperative to avoid a situation where we might have no arms control and no mutual verification at all. Against the backdrop of the Trump Administration’s loathing of arms control, it will be up to the European NATO allies to conceptualize a new arms-control framework for the post-INF world.

How About a Peace Race Instead of an Arms Race?

by Lawrence Wittner

On September 25, 1961, dismayed by the Soviet Union’s recent revival of nuclear weapons testing, John F. Kennedy used the occasion of his address to the United Nations to challenge the Russians “not to an arms race, but to a peace race.”