South Korea floats building nukes amid US neglect
As North Korea continues to modernize its arsenal and Washington dithers on diplomacy, some in Seoul are amping up rhetoric.
As North Korea continues to modernize its arsenal and Washington dithers on diplomacy, some in Seoul are amping up rhetoric.
Activists and sympathetic diplomats are fighting hard to build on what one expert called ‘one of the few bright spots’ in disarmament.
The report focuses heavily on how the nuclear industry influences institutional output in its favor and works to censor its critics.
Some say Kyiv would have been in a better position today if it hadn’t been disarmed following the fall of the Soviet Union.
At mid-term, the president’s actions in these key areas don’t yet match his early, bold talk. But it’s not too late for course corrections.
The president’s handling of the war in Ukraine has largely been the sole bright spot in an otherwise status quo oriented U.S. posture.
Moscow appears to be trying to pressure Washington on Ukraine but abandoning New START would carry wider security risks.
Time to move towards making North Korea a responsible nuclear weapons state. The alternative could be much more terrifying.
The former American ambassador spoke at a recent retrospective on the Cuban Missile Crisis and lamented the lessons lost.
While the new nuclear posture document curbs some of the worst excesses of the Trump era, it lacks vision for world without atomic weapons.
Subsequent efforts to cut arsenals or keep weapons from ‘bad guys’ have inured the public from the real danger: the nukes themselves.
Experts say the White House’s new nuclear strategy is a major missed opportunity to change American policy for the better.
Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman just reaffirmed that Washington would maintain first use to protect ‘our allies.’
The chances of this widening into a much more devastating conflict demands the West explore what may be possible.
The close of the Non-Proliferation Treaty review was a fail, but that doesn’t mean parties can’t persist in the pursuit of New START.
According to a new study, an atomic exchange between India and Pakistan would result in mass starvation, killing billions.
The world faces “a time of nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War,” according to the UN.
A former sailor wants Congress to deny the comeback of the ‘low-yield’ cruise missiles because they are redundant, and dangerous.
Weapons reduction is really just a pipe dream now, as treaties are abandoned and great powers see the utility in ramping up.
People in these states were told ‘there is no danger’ during atomic blasting that occurred from 1945-1962.
As Russian forces dig in and the US sends more arms to Kyiv, we need a public debate about the no longer ‘unthinkable’ nuclear option.