CounterPunch

Nuclear Arms Control: When Will the Lost Chance Be the Last Chance?

In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear weapons development have been wasted. Starting with the mistaken U.S. decision to ...
The Diplomat

Trump Wants Nuclear Arms Control Talks With China and Russia. Here’s Where to Start.

Amid the political flux surrounding the fate of European ties with the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a somber yet fair assessment of the global nuclear order. Questioning the ...
CounterPunch

Nuclear Arms Control Disappearing Before Our Eyes

When NewSTART (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 2010) expires on February 5, 2026, Russia and the U.S. will face the prospect of a new nuclear arms race unconstrained by bilateral agreements. Since ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The US nuclear arms control community needs a strategic plan

It is a commonplace that the danger of nuclear weapons is becoming more severe year by year. This is reflected in the Bulletin’s Doomsday Clock, for which the time to midnight has declined steadily ...
War on the Rocks

Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Managing AI Risks in Nuclear Command-and-Control

On Nov. 16, U.S. and Chinese leaders met on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, jointly affirming “the need to maintain human control over the decision to use ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

China and the United States need a framework for nuclear arms control. It isn’t New START

Editor’s note: This article belongs to a two-part series about addressing the nuclear arms control trilemma. Read the second article in the series. The extended New START arms control agreement ...