It is a commonplace that the danger of nuclear weapons is becoming more severe year by year. This is reflected in the Bulletin’s Doomsday Clock, for which the time to midnight has declined steadily ...

The “Baker” explosion, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military, at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, on July 25, 1946. Credit: U.S. Department of Defense. It is often forgotten that the ...

Since Donald Trump took office, Russia has changed its position on arms control at least five times. After years of rejecting U.S. overtures for dialogue, during Trump’s first week in office, the ...

The rise of great power competition gives the United States all the more reason to invest in international cooperative frameworks for nuclear arms control. Some 80 years after the bombings of ...