New life for New START?

Ian Johnson Joel Beckner Heng Qin Nadezhda Smakhtina In December 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared: “We need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces ... especially with…

Toward a Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons

By Daryl G. Kimball Nearly five decades ago, the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) established the requirement that states-parties pursue “effective measures” to end the nuclear arms race and to…

Green energy’s battery explosion

By Lucien Crowder It’s not news that the world must rapidly transform its energy systems if it’s to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Nor is it news that…