Abstract The United States has an estimated 4,650 nuclear warheads available for delivery by more than 800 ballistic missiles and aircraft. Approximately 2,700 retired but…
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Abstract In this Nuclear Notebook, the authors write about nonstrategic nuclear weapons—starting with the difficulty of finding a universal definition for them. Although the United…
Abstract The authors calculate that some 125,000 nuclear warheads have been built since 1945, about 97 percent of them by the United States and the…
Abstract The number of weapons in China’s nuclear arsenal is slowly growing, and the capability of those weapons is also increasing. The authors estimate that…
Abstract Recent protests against the exclusion of Chinese scientists from an international conference held in the United States only scratch the surface of the formal…
Abstract As the writers in this symposium illustrate, dealing with Iran’s nuclear program is one of the most important foreign policy issues of the day.…
Abstract If the United States were to adopt a policy to phase out nuclear generation, as has happened recently in other developed countries, what would…
Abstract It is tempting to attribute variations in support for nuclear power to prominent accidents such as Three Mile Island in the United States or…
Abstract “You have been brainwashed,” our Russian hosts lamented during dinner at their Moscow apartment in late April. We had asked them how they reconcile…
Abstract Reviewing decades of sanctions on Iran, the authors write that a diplomatic resolution should be the approach to resolving the standoff with Iran over…
Abstract The United States maintains huge stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) for weapons use—far larger than needed for any conceivable military contingency.…
Abstract The effects of the tragedy at Japan’s Fukushima power plant will continue to reverberate over the upcoming weeks, months, and years. And, as the…
Abstract The United States is on course to all but exit the commercial nuclear power industry even if the country awakens to the dangers of…
Abstract Missile defenses have been a source of contention in US-Russian relations since the beginning of the strategic dialogue between the United States and the…
Summary Getting to Zero takes on the much-debated goal of nuclear zero—exploring the serious policy questions raised by nuclear disarmament and suggesting practical steps for…
