Protecting US Security By Minimizing the Role of Nuclear Weapons
…policies and doctrines remain encumbered by Cold War beliefs in the potential utility of these weapons of mass destruction. These false hopes that nuclear weapons can play a range of…
Michael Krepon quoted in The Washington Post on weapons treaties
…as the 1991 initatives that unilaterally pulled back tactical nuclear weapons. Now, Mr. Krepon says, “all of this work is in peril” in a time of “great unraveling.” Read the…
Ukraine Risks Revisited
…arms and light weapons, man-portable air defense systems, and anti-tank/all-purpose tactical guided missiles. Fortunately, available evidence suggests that Ukraine has avoided the sort of large-scale illicit weapons diversion that many…
Rethinking the Threat: Why China is Unlikely to Invade Taiwan
…Wilson, Christopher Preble, and Lucas Ruiz, “Gambling on Armageddon: How US Nuclear Policies Are Undercutting Deterrence and Lowering the Threshold for Nuclear War,” The Stimson Center, February 19, 2025, https://www.stimson.org/2025/gambling-on-armageddon-nuclear-deterrence-threshold-for-nuclear-war/….
Barry Blechman and Russell Rumbaugh quoted in The Diplomat on US nuclear policy objectives
Maintaining nuclear superiority over China, rough parity with Russia, and developing a new set of forward-deployable tactical nuclear weapons are the principal recommendations of a new study by the Washington-based…
Unauthorized Retransfers: A Challenge to Security and the Legitimate Arms Trade
…tracks conventional weapons in contemporary armed conflicts through its publicly accessible “iTrace” program. Markings on the weapons are used to identify a weapon’s model, serial number and, ultimately, a single…
Proliferation Prevention Efforts Remain Critical Despite Elimination of World’s Declared CW Stockpiles
…Weapons Convention (CWC) in April 1997, the United States announced on July 7 that it had completed the elimination of the last of its chemical weapons stockpile at the Blue…
Global Arms Trade: Setting an Example for Responsible Policy
…the weapons sold and transferred remain useful long after the sale is completed and can be used to either promote or undermine U.S. interests. For example, U.S. weapons and vehicles…