The Trump administration and the Kremlin have given notice of intent to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. New START may be next on the chopping block. Where do we go from here? If the process of nuclear arms control as we have …
The Trump administration and the Kremlin have given notice of intent to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. New START may be next on the chopping block. Even if New START can be extended, what steps might usefully follow? Are nu …
This event was rescheduled due to inclement weather. It is now taking place on Thursday, May 2. Event Description: Wilson will challenge Cold War concepts that still inform policy, and present new and compelling reasons why we should take the qu …
Donald Trump’s announcement of intent to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty constitutes another severe blow to a treaty-based system of nuclear arms and threat reduction. One last treaty governing formal, verifiable draw-downs o …
Published November 26, 2018 / Held December 12, 2018
Please join the Stimson Center for a luncheon panel on “The Nonproliferation Treaty at Fifty.” Our featured speaker will be Professor Scott Sagan, the co-author with Kenneth Waltz of The Spread of Nuclear Weapons. We have asked Sagan to reprise the deb …
RSVP HERE The global nuclear order and the Non-Proliferation Treaty are undergoing stress tests. Proliferation challenges emanate from Iran and North Korea. The future of the New START Treaty and deeper cuts in strategic force levels between the United …
Event Audio, Photos, and Speaker Bios Can Be Found Here Watch the previously recorded video of the event at the bottom of the page. In July, 122 states voiced support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The treaty …
Published November 20, 2017 / Held December 6, 2017
Watch the event video below or click here. In tribute to Professor Alexander George’s lifetime pursuit, Stimson is presenting a luncheon series in which book authors based in academia present their findings, with commentary provided by practitioners an …
The U.N. Security Council 1540 Committee and the U.N. Office of Disarmament Affairs collaborated with the Stimson Center to create an international essay competition for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The winners will be announced, and some w …
Published September 12, 2016 / Held September 30, 2016
Twenty years ago, the United States took a leading role in negotiations for a verifiable ban on the explosive testing of nuclear weapons. The result was the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which opened for signature September 24, 1996. Although t …
Published August 31, 2016 / Held September 13, 2016
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was indefinitely extended in 1995. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was negotiated in 1996. Two decades later, both treaties are not in good shape. The CTBT remains in limbo, shackled by a provision designed to del …
Published January 29, 2016 / Held February 11, 2016
In 2004, the U.N. Security Council adopted resolution 1540 calling for all States to take steps to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery. The Security Council requires a comprehensive review in 2016 …
Published October 20, 2015 / Held October 29, 2015
Seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there remains a sharp divide over the strategic value of nuclear weapons in maintaining international peace and stability. Ward Wilson argued the affirmative debate proposition, “Nuclea …
Published October 15, 2015 / Held November 12, 2015
The humanitarian consequences of using nuclear weapons are now central to the debate about their future, owing to the efforts of a new global movement. Just within the last few weeks, Pope Francis has called for complete nuclear disarmament on ethical …
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute(SIPRI)BOOK LAUNCH Governing the Bomb:Civilian Control and Democratic Accountability ofNuclear Weapons Thursday, March 3, 2011 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.The Stimson Center1111 19th Street NW, …
Before the ink was even dry on the incorporation papers of the brand-new Henry L. Stimson Center, the Carnegie Corporation of New York made its first investment in our work. Indeed, without that first grant, titled “Avoiding Nuclear War”, this “new kin …
Twenty-five years ago, the shape of modern international relations was fundamentally transformed with a wave of revolutions that swept across the Eastern bloc. Beginning in Poland that summer, and culminating with the opening of the Berlin Wall by Nove …
Time to Get Creative: Cold War Lessons for Climate Negotiators You might wonder what the Cold War has to do with climate change, but as I listened last month to historian James Graham Wilson talk about the “triumph of improvisation” that ended the near …
There have been only two Democratic presidents since Franklin Delano Roosevelt who have been elected to serve two full terms. On nuclear issues, Barack Obama seems to be following in the footsteps of Bill Clinton, whose disarmament successes in his fir …
Activities to reduce the dangers of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction have been prominent elements in Stimson’s agenda throughout its 25 year history. Our work has included research and analysis, the convening of working groups of emin …
What the Air Force can learn from the nuclear cheating scandal BEFORE THEY go on duty with US nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, officers are trained in classrooms and simulators. They are schooled in weapons systems, missile code handl …
A Wobbly Nuclear Order Five years ago, President Barack Obama was preparing to deliver a speech in Prague calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Nongovernmental organizations, including the Stimson Center, helped with blueprints for getting to …
Time to look beyond the UN climate negotiations A top-down, consensus-driven process involving 195 negotiating parties isn’t likely to slow greenhouse gas emissions. Society’s success curbing nuclear weapons offers a better paradigm. WASHINGTON – Secre …
US Nukes: Now It’s Our Turn to Catch Up to the Russians America’s nuclear arsenal, an afterthought to most after the Cold War, are badly in need of upgrades that could cost up to a trillion dollars over the next 30 years in order to keep pace wit …
Some state leaders view nuclear weapons as an “icon of power” and believe that non-proliferation efforts would diminish their political standing in the world, according to a panel discussion held in New York on Oct. 16. “If states see …
When I worked with a group of high-ranking former military and civilian national security officials last year to develop a new U.S. defense strategy called “Strategic Agility,” we assumed our elected policymakers would not be so stupid as to allow the …
When I worked with a group of high-ranking former military and civilian national security officials last year to develop a new U.S. defense strategy called “Strategic Agility,” we assumed our elected policymakers would not be so stupid as to allow the …
President Obama has come home from the Group of 20 summit with essentially no more international support for a strike on Syria than when he left the U.S. He spent the last three days in Sweden and Russia, lobbying U.S. allies on the sidelines and on th …
After downplaying plans for additional cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the run-up to the 2012 elections, President Obama has returned to the subject in his second term. According to published reports, he has won military support for cutti …
Arms control, the theory and practice guiding the decades-long effort by the United States and other nations to limit the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction (WMD), no longer works. A new paradigm is required for the United States and the worl …