Inventory Management Cooperation: A Core Function of Nuclear Security
…until April 1995 that CTR implementing agreements on Nuclear Weapons Storage and Transportation Security were signed that technical talks began directly with the Russian Ministry of Defense’s (MOD) 12th Main…
Testing Assumptions About the War in Ukraine, One Year Later
…thus far refrained from using nuclear weapons, but that is no reason to become sanguine about the risks of nuclear escalation. More broadly, Washington should exercise considerable caution in applying…
Learning about the Bomb
…a clear-eyed understanding of nuclear history. Nuclear weapons have helped deter nuclear wars and full-scale conventional wars between nuclear-armed states. But it is unclear they have deterred anything else. There…
TRANSCRIPT – Visiting Fellow Research Roundtable: Security Trends in Southern Asia
…Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, that would, from Pakistan’s perspective, it’d actually be interpreted as a first use, and this will eventually have very serious concerns for strategic stability. Now on the…
Geological Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel
…when SNF is placed underground, it’s also important to prevent the SNF and the plutonium it contains from being diverted towards weapons use. Measures controlling the spread of nuclear weapons…
A Guide to the Perplexed: Q&A on the US-India Nuclear Deal
…most important responsibilities and practices that prevent proliferation are: committing not to test nuclear weapons; refraining from producing fissile material for nuclear weapons; implementing properly tough export controls; and protecting…
Recognizing Reality: A Case for Nationalizing the US Arms Industry
…How US Nuclear Policies Are Undercutting Deterrence and Lowering the Threshold for Nuclear War,” (Stimson Center, 2025), https://www.stimson.org/2025/gambling-on-armageddon-nuclear-deterrence-threshold-for-nuclear-war/. 3 Elle Ekman, “The Stakes Of A Nuclear Missile Monopoly,” American Conservative,…
Nuclear power in Sweden
…further development. The 1960s also saw the emergence of a nuclear program in Sweden, first as a secret nuclear weapons program that later came to focus solely on nuclear energy…