Nuclear Proliferation

Washington and Seoul are busy urging Beijing to prevent a seventh North Korean nuclear test. There’s been a flurry of meetings and statements, including U.S. president Joe Biden and South...

The Doomsday Clock was created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in 1947 to demonstrate in stark terms just how close humanity was to collective nuclear suicide. During the Cold...

State Department spokesperson Ned Price this week expressed “concern” about cooperation between North Korea and Iran on nuclear proliferation.  “We have released information on this. Some of this information has been...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended European geopolitics and marked the return of great power competition. However, the ramifications of the invasion will be global in scope as policymakers carefully...

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many scholars, particularly realists, argue that more states will now seek nuclearization. Their nuclear weapons would give them a more credible deterrence in the face of existential threats. They warn against...

North Korea abandoned its previously pledged moratorium on nuclear tests or long-range missile launches this year, even announcing a nuclear first-use doctrine, implying its nuclear arsenal is for offensive purposes...

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the stability of Europe has been shattered. After four months of the “special operation” launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24 to “demilitarize and de-nazify...

Ploughshares Fund · European Public Opinion and Nukes Nuclear weapons are playing a role in the Russo-Ukrainian War, even if they haven’t actually been used. Some suggest that public support...

If the architects of the AUKUS pact and its headline initiative to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines imagined it would be seen as proliferation neutral, the reality might not be...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Unlike Iraq and Iran, Damascus made little effort to disperse and harden nuclear facilities. Indeed, given Syria’s proximity to Israel, it’s difficult to imagine how...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: It must be recognized that if pushed, Japan could certainly acquire nuclear weapons.  It is perhaps China’s greatest nightmare: a nuclear-armed Japan. Permanently anchored...

The Energy Department’s choice for the leading reactor design for reviving nuclear power construction in the United States is so at odds with U.S. nonproliferation policy that it opens America...