The global system to prevent nuclear proliferation and promote disarmament is beginning to fray. Although the nonproliferation regime has held together for more than half a century, more countries are ...

If South Korea and Japan develop nuclear weapons, that doesn’t mean we should abandon our alliances with them. Editor’s Note: Please take a look at Elbridge Colby’s recent debate with T. X. Hammes: ...

To prevent the application of pathogenic genes and genomes to the production of biological weapons, some commercial DNA providers now screen orders so that potentially dangerous sequences are not ...

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force in 1970. It became the bedrock of the global nonproliferation and disarmament regime due to its near universal membership. The NPT was ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M.--This town is synonymous with one thing: the atomic bomb. It's probably not fair, given that the Manhattan Project wrapped up its work 62 years ago, but when you are responsible for ...

BEIJING, April 25 (Xinhua) -- The United States is the biggest disruptor to the international arms control and nonproliferation system, and China urges the United States to carefully examine its own ...

Here's the deal: 183 nations that lack nuclear weapons pledge to never develop them, and, in return, five nations—China, France, Russia, the U.K, and the U.S.—that have nuclear weapons promise to ...

On August 13, President Donald Trump signed the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, a spending bill that includes a dense anthology of budgetary policies. In ...

Nuclear technology has long been recognized as capable of both tremendous benefits and tremendous destruction. With this in mind, countries have devised international arrangements intended to promote ...

CNS strives to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by training the next generation of nonproliferation specialists and disseminating timely information and analysis. It is the ...