Nuclear Disarmament

Kazakhstan’s Enduring Lessons for Nuclear Disarmament

In the past two months, a diplomatic offensive has put Kazakhstan at the center of Eurasian diplomacy and strengthened nuclear cooperation between the United States and Kazakhstan. Today’s successes have...

Can the World Defuse the Threat of Nuclear War?

During the Cold War, millions of people went to bed every night terrified of a nuclear conflict breaking out. However, since the implosion of the Soviet Union, the world has...

What Abolitionists Get Wrong About U.S. Nuclear Deterrence

The Russian threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine has generated more discussion about U.S. nuclear deterrent policy than at any time since the height of the nuclear freeze movement...

Have Russia and China Killed Nuclear Arms Control?

Nuclear arms control has been a fact of U.S. strategic deterrent efforts since at least 1972 when the Nixon administration and Congress ratified the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and the...

A Catholic Archbishop Calls for Nuclear Disarmament

Last month, John C. Wester, the Archbishop of Santa Fe, California, issued a pastoral letter calling for nuclear abolition and supporting the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons....

Why Did South Africa Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The region and the world are undoubtedly safer because of the decisions made in the 1990s to relinquish South Africa’s nuclear program. Why did South...

Here’s How South Africa Joined the Post-Nuclear Club

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The region and the world are undoubtedly safer because of the decisions made in the 1990s to relinquish South Africa’s nuclear program. Moreover, the dismantling...

Americans Underestimate the Danger in Continuing to Defend South Korea

South Korea enjoys a unique status in Washington. It has generated fierce loyalty among many Americans who served there. The Republic of Korea (ROK) also enjoys widespread public support. There...

Remember When South Africa Had Nuclear Weapons?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: But the case of South Africa is deeply idiosyncratic. The core national security threats to the state disappeared simultaneous to a change in the nature...

Inside South Africa’s Decision to Build (and Give Up) Nuclear Weapons

Here’s What You Need to Know: The region and the world are undoubtedly safer because of the decisions made in the 1990s to relinquish South Africa’s nuclear program. Why did...

Pandemic Progress Proves the World Can Stop Nuclear Proliferation

As the world begins its gradual recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, we are reminded what humanity can accomplish when motivated by a common purpose—and extreme circumstances. Through the tireless efforts of...

75 Years After Hiroshima, the UN Bans Nuclear Weapons

The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will finally come into force after the 50th country (Honduras) ratified it over the weekend. The treaty will make the development,...