The threat of U.S. withdrawal has prompted countries around the world — from Germany to South Korea — to talk about building ...

ROSE GOTTEMOELLER is William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies ...

This was a primary nuclear explosion test site for the Soviet Union and its radioactive legacy is still present today.

The United Kingdom got nuclear weapons in 1952 and France in 1960, despite the security assurances. Another framework was needed: the arms control and disarmament commitments embodied in the ...

The bleak assessment from Moscow comes amid the disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties which sought to slow the arms race ... Cold War superpowers came closest to intentional ...

That uncertainty extends to the reliability of the American nuclear umbrella. Increasing worries for some of a new nuclear arms race ... Could the war in Ukraine and continued Russian aggression ...

potentially the fastest and most dangerous acceleration of nuclear arms proliferation around the world since the early Cold War. The new nuclear powers aren’t just the rogue nations that have ...