Nuclear Security

The introduction of the Grey Wolf helicopter is part of the broader strategy to modernize America’s ailing nuclear triad and maintain deterrence capabilities.

In recent weeks, certain politically motivated lobbies have been propagating unwarranted perceptions and concerns about Pakistan’s nuclear security regime. These need to be addressed directly, as Pakistan is firmly devoted...

An unsecured nuclear weapons arsenal is the sort of thing that is likely to keep Americans up at night. Now, a new government report is raising the alarm.  The Government...

To keep costs down, one of our national laboratories used $5.00 off-the-shelf capacitors for a nuclear warhead modernization program. But tests later revealed the parts did not meet the high...

Anxieties about the dangers inherent in nuclear weapons were the defining feature of the Cold War era. On the negative side, the entire period was characterized by acute fears that...

In the next few weeks, the Biden administration is likely to release both a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and a Missile Defense Review (MDR). These two documents are the chance...

If it was not already evident that disinformation campaigns should be taken seriously as a security threat, the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election brought...

The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly had drastic effects on the workforce and, in particular, on women and people who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) in the...

North Korea, earlier this week, conducted its eighth missile test of the year, one that the regime later confirmed was a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), conducted by the Academy of...

Editor’s note: In late September, The National Interest organized a symposium on nuclear policy, nonproliferation, and arms control under the Biden administration. A variety of scholars were asked the following...

Although a superpower should be able to evacuate one nation while negotiating with another, Uncle Sam sometimes finds it difficult to walk and chew gum at the same time. Hence the fear that the...

Here’s What You Need To Know: Between 1989 and 1998 seven expeditions were carried out to secure the reactor against radioactive release and seal the torpedo tubes. Russian sources allege that...