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Nuclear Weapons

Why Nuclear Negotiations with Russia Are Worth It

FINE PRINT / OPINION — “In order to prevent the emergence of a new strategic arms race and to preserve an acceptable degree of predictability and [...] More

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The Senate Drives a Nuclear Spending Spree

OPINION — “America’s defense strategy and strategic posture must change in order to properly defend its vital interests and improve strategic [...] More

Understanding China's Growing Nuclear Arsenal

Understanding China's Growing Nuclear Arsenal

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — As the United States mulls deploying nuclear-armed, sea-launched missiles as a deterrent to its adversaries, China [...] More

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program Sparks Debate Over Money - and Need

OPINION — “The SLCM-N [sub-launched nuclear cruise missile] is theoretically meant to assure our adversaries that we have the ability to respond in [...] More

Buildup, Tuneup and Cleanup: Inside the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program

OPINION — “The [U.S.] nuclear weapons program of record grew from five to seven systems this past year.” That’s National Nuclear Security [...] More

The Dawn of Our Nuclear Wake-Up Call

OPINION – A list of proposals released last Thursday in the final report of the 12-member bipartisan Congressional Commission on the Strategic [...] More

U.S.-Iran Stand-Off Hints of Old "Tanker War"

U.S.-Iran Stand-Off Hints of Old "Tanker War"

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – Less than a month ago, with global attention fixed on the Ukrainian offensive, U.S. Admiral James Stavridis (ret.) sought to [...] More

As America's Nuclear Arsenal Upgrades, Usual Testing is Scrapped

OPINION — “U.S. [nuclear] warheads were designed and manufactured until the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, we have not designed any new [...] More

America Beefs Up Potential Response as Threat of Russian Nukes Loom 

OPINION — Back in late February, four Boeing B-52H strategic bombers from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (23rd EBS), based at Minot Air Force [...] More

As the War in Ukraine Intensifies, America's Nuclear Policy Needs a Fresh Look

OPINION — “I believe improving our ability to deter and counter adversary limited nuclear use in a regional conflict is the single most important [...] More

North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons Are a Threat to All Nations

OPINION — The Joint Statement of the Xi Jinping – Vladimir Putin summit expressed concern about the situation on the Korean Peninsula. That was an [...] More

Nuclear Weapons, Deterrence and What's Next

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. Pincus spent forty years at [...] More

Where Biden Stands on Nuclear Weapons

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at [...] More