The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a nuclear crisis.

DF-31 intercontinental ballistic missiles in three silo fields near its border with Mongolia. While the Pentagon had ...

Arms control is much unloved at both ends of the political spectrum. Those ideologically opposed to arms control on the right believe it to be a snare and a delusion. In this view, arms control ...

China’s newly released White Paper, “China’s Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nonproliferation in the New Era,” is not simply a catalogue of policies. It is ...

In 2023, Moscow suspended the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), withdrew from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE), de-ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ...

Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer does a great job showing the speed and tenacity with which power brokers took control of the nuclear weapons enterprise once the weapons were created. From J.

There’s always the potential for unintended consequences with arm sales, however justified they are. A basic problem for countries that sell weapons is that once you sell them you’ve given up ...

While the U.S.-Russian relationship continues to be a useful model for thinking about the future, looking at a broader range of experiences shows that arms control is possible both when geopolitics ...

This piece is part of the CSIS International Security Program’s Transition46 series on Defense360. The last remaining bilateral arms control treaty between the United States and Russia—the New ...