Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
IN THIS ISSUE: Rethinking Nuclear Arms Control, Putin Says Russia Willing to Include New Weapons in U.S. Talks, Even if Biden Wins U.S. Election, Time is Running out to Save Iran Nuclear Deal, U.S. Urges Countries to Withdraw From UN Nuke Ban Treaty, Opinion: The Extension of a Nuclear Treaty Between the U.S. and Russia Would be a Crucial, Responsible Step, Commentary: Will America Help Britain Build a New Nuclear Warhead?
To Reboot Arms Control, Start With Small Steps, U.S., Russia Near Deal to Extend Nuclear Treaty and Freeze Warheads for a Year, Creating an Opportunity to Withdraw U.S. Nuclear Weapons From Europe, Pentagon Estimates Cost of New Nuclear Missiles at $95.8B, Satellite Images Indicate Russia is Preparing to Resume Testing its Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile, India Successfully Test-Fires Naval Version of BrahMos Missile
IN THIS ISSUE: Trump Thought he Had a Nuclear Deal With Putin. Not So Fast, Russia Said, Rouhani Celebrates end of Iran Arms Embargo, Vipin Narang on the Global Nuclear Landscape: Hype and Reality, North Korea’s Nuclear, Missile Programs ‘Serious Threat’ to Security: Pentagon Chief, UK Ballistic Missile Sub Crew Suffers COVID-19 Outbreak After Visit to U.S. Sub Base, China Has Expanded the Shipyard Where its Nuclear Submarines Are Built, Satellite Imagery Shows
IN THIS ISSUE: Practical Ways to Promote U.S.-China Arms Control Cooperation, A Nuclear North Korea’s Wake-Up Call, Threat From Nuclear Weapons and Missiles has Grown Since Trump Entered Office, Trump’s Virus Treatment Revives Questions About Unchecked Nuclear Authority, Trump Administration Renews Push for Nuclear Arms Agreement With Russia Before Election, Controversy Over Bids to Host Nuclear Waste Highlights Disposal Issue
IN THIS ISSUE: A ReSTART for U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control: Enhancing Security Through Cooperation, U.S. Hits All of Iran’s Financial Sector With Sanctions, U.S. Sees “Important Progress” in Helsinki Nuclear Arms Talks, Pence, Harris, Clash Over Iran Nuclear Agreement During Debate, Russia Reports Successful Test Launch of Hypersonic Missile, What a North Korean Holiday May Reveal About Kim Jong Un’s Plans
IN THIS ISSUE: New ‘Strategic Weapon?’: What to Expect at North Korea’s October Military Parade, 2. U.S., Russia Move Toward Outline of Nuclear Deal, Administration Says, Government Okays Induction of Nuke-Capable Shaurya Missile Amid Ladakh Standoff, Japan Hopes to Have Alternative to Aegis Ashore Missile-Defense System by Year’s End, CTBTO Begins Leadership Selection Process, Guterres: Only way to Remove Nuclear Risk, ‘Completely Eliminate Nuclear Weapons’
IN THIS ISSUE: UN Nuclear Watchdog Inspects Second Iran Site, Russia Rebuffs Trump’s Arms-Control Proposal, As Kim Wooed Trump With ‘Love Letters,’ he Kept Building His Nuclear Capability, Intelligence Shows, Bipartisan Congressional Task Force Recommends Extending Nuclear Treaty with Russia, Boeing Assembles Team to Bid for Next-Gen Missile Defense Interceptor, Opinion: Washington’s Arms Control Delusions and Bluffs
IN THIS ISSUE: Trump Administration Orders Assessment on Bolstering Nuclear Warheads as Talks With Russia Stall, Trump Team Weighs New Sanctions on Iran’s Financial Sector, Discussions on U.S. Intermediate Missile Deployment in S. Korea Premature: U.S. Envoy, Japan Lawmakers Review Three Proposals for New Missile Defense System, DoD Seeks Legislative Help for ICBM Replacement Construction Costs
IN THIS ISSUE: U.S. Scrambles to do Nuclear Deal With Russia Before Election, Issuing Ultimatum, Iran Says ‘Internal Agents’ may be Responsible for Natanz Blast, PACOM Chief Warns of Threat to Guam; China Presses Hard, DPRK Nuclear Activities Still ‘Cause for Serious Concern’, Says UN Atomic Energy Chief, New House Legislation Would Put Nuclear Testing Decisions Squarely in Congressional Hands, UN Nuclear Ban Treaty Reaches 45 Signatories
IN THIS ISSUE: U.S. to Slap Sanctions on Over Two Dozen Targets Tied to Iran Arms, U.S. Seeks to Pressure Russia Into Nuclear Weapons Treaty Concessions Before Election, Biden Would Push for Less U.S. Reliance on Nukes for Defense, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s Interview With the Newspaper Kommersant (English Translation), Energy Dept. Officials are ‘Trying to Undermine’ Nuclear Weapons Agency, Inhofe Alleges, Former World Leaders Urge Ratification of Nuclear Arms Ban Treaty
IN THIS ISSUE: Conventional Long-Range Strike Weapons of U.S. Allies and China’s Concerns of Strategic Stability, North Korea Mass Producing Ballistic Missile Transporters: Sources, Seoul: N. Korea may Conduct Underwater-Launched Missile Test, U.S. Plans to Enforce UN Sanctions on Iran With its own Action, Pentagon Pushes Back on Claim That U.S. to Leave Turkey’s Incirlik Base, Revealed: Saudi Arabia may Have Enough Uranium ore to Produce Nuclear Fuel, Japanese Nuclear Policy After Hiroshima, After Abe, and After Nov. 3
IN THIS ISSUE: U.S. Asks UN's Highest Court to Dismiss Sanctions Case by Iran, IAEA in Wide-Ranging Talks With Saudi Arabia on Tougher Nuclear Checks, China’s Nuclear Arms Buildup ‘Inconsistent’ With No-First-Use Policy, Stratcom Chief Says, South Korea Says No Use of Nuclear Weapons in Joint Operational Plans With U.S., Iran Can Now Enrich Stable Isotopes, Country's Atomic Agency Claims, Japan Struggles to Secure Radioactive Nuclear Waste Dump Sites
IN THIS ISSUE: Reinventing Nuclear Arms Control, Trump Discloses Supposed Existence of a Secret New Nuclear Weapon System to Bob Woodward, LAC Standoff: Massive Chinese Build-Up on North Bank of Pangong Tso Lake, Intel: Iran Claims it Found Agents Behind Natanz Nuclear Explosion, China’s Air Force Might be Back in the Nuclear Business, Northrup Grumman Wins $13 Billion Contract to Replace U.S. Ballistic Missiles
IN THIS ISSUE: Uncharted Waters: Europe and the end of Nuclear Arms Control, Iran Building New Production Hall for Centrifuges in Mountains Near Natanz, Triangles of Instability: Nuclear Dilemmas and how They Feed Into Each Other, IAEA Inspects One of Two Sites in Iran After Long Stand-Off, India Joins Hypersonic Club With Successful Test Flight of Cruise Vehicle, Images Suggeest North Korea may be Preparing Launch of Submarine Missile, Think Tank Says
IN THIS ISSUE: Pentagon Concerned by China's Nuclear Ambitions, Expects Warheads to Double, Iran Nuclear Deal Parties ‘United in Resolve’ to Preserve Agreement, No Sign North Korea Reprocessed Plutonium in Past Year, Still Enriching Uranium, IAEA Says, U.S. Officials: No New Environmental Study for Nuclear Lab, North Korea Waiting for U.S. Elections to Resume Talks, South Korean Ambassador Says, Russia’s ‘Slow-Motion Chernobyl’ at sea
IN THIS ISSUE: Iran Nuclear Deal Parties Meet in Vienna Amid U.S. Pressure, Iran Sanctions Dispute Poses New Challenge for the UN, With a Wary Eye on China, Taiwan Moves to Revamp Its Military, India, China Hold Talks Amid ‘Volatile’ Border Situation, Japan and U.S. Defense Chiefs Hold Talks in Guam as China Tensions Build, ARRW to Mayhem to the Future of Hypersonic Weapons
IN THIS ISSUE: Iran Relents on IAEA Inspections at Two Sites, Ending Standoff, Iran Nuclear Deal: UN Rejects U.S. bid to ‘Snapback’ Iran Sanctions, U.S. Nuclear Weapons Budget Could Skyrocket if Russia Treaty Ends, North Korea Puts Focus on Big Problems Piling Up at Home, Chinese Military Fires ‘Aircraft-Carrier Killer’ Missile Into South China Sea in ‘Warning to the United States’, Missiles are Advancing So Quickly That Their Names Need to Change, Report Finds
IN THIS ISSUE: Solid Ambitions: The U.S.-South Korea Missile Guidelines and Space Launchers, Iran Hails ‘Constructive’ Talks With Visiting IAEA Chief, USAF Rethinks Relationship Between Conventional, Nuclear Weapons, Iran Nuclear: Fire at Natanz Plant ‘Caused by Sabotage’, Russia Achieves Certain Success in Helping China Set Up Its Missile Attack Warning System, Mounting Climate Impacts Threaten U.S. Nuclear Reactors
IN THIS ISSUE: At a Crossroads? China-India Nuclear Relations After the Border Clash, Trump Administration Shifts Course on Russian Arms Talks, Easing Insistence China Join Now, Iran Sanctions: U.S. Set to Demand ‘Snapback’ of Measures at U.N. Security Council, Senators Warn Trump Saudi-Chinese Uranium Plant Risks Spread of Nuclear Weapons, Iran Announces Locally Made Ballistic and Cruise Missiles Amid U.S. Tensions, Missile Defense Agency Director Lays Out Hurdles in Path to Layered Homeland Missile Defense
IN THIS ISSUE: U.S. Loses Iran Arms Embargo Bid as Putin Pushes Summit to Avoid Nuclear Deal Showdown, Iran, EU Reject U.S. Plan to Trigger ‘Snapback’ of Sanctions, U.S., Russia Still at Odds Over New Nuclear Arms Treaty, U.S. Considers Midrange Missile Deployment in Asia to Counter China, Japan’s Been Proudly Pacifist for 75 Years. A Missile Proposal Challenges That, Opinion: Iran “Snapback” Isn’t Worth The Risk