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 ...

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 ...

In four short months, U.S. officials will be engaging representatives of 189 other members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) on how to strengthen the agreement. Washington has previously ...

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 ...

In a world where very few states have nuclear weapons — namely, the victors of the Second World War and a handful of others — what strategies has the United States employed to prevent additional ...

When limits on nuclear weapons get public attention nowadays, the discussion generally focuses on the disintegration of this or that arms control agreement, and whether its diminishment or ...

In the climate-change era, everyone who has oil wants to be the last one to sell it. Oil-producing countries still plan to increase production in the near term, and very few economic incentives exist ...

The University of Michigan began spearheading a new $25 million nuclear nonproliferation program earlier this year to further nuclear research and prepare students to join the nuclear security ...

In an imperfect world, getting the basics right and then sticking to them should take precedence over lesser issues. Nowhere does this tested truism have more salience than in the necessarily ...

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