He served six presidents and was at the center of bureaucratic intrigue around the overwhelming threat of nuclear ...

Explore 25 pivotal arms control treaties and their role in U.S. national security. Understand how these agreements have ...

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 hypersonic arms race is in full swing: Countries around the world are investing staggering amounts of money into hypersonic weapons. And these are no longer limited to Russia, China, and 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 ...

What does conventional arms control mean for how wars end? Even the longest wars terminate, and many conflicts end with some kind of agreement, even if it is unconditional surrender. Yet the term ...

China and the European Union (EU) signed the Joint Declaration of the People’s Republic of China and the European Union on Non-proliferation and Arms Control in 2004 in The Hague, the Netherlands, ...

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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 ...

There was a time when the subject of nuclear weapons was so consequential to international peace that it could bring even the most intense adversaries into the same room. Increasingly, it feels that ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Over the last decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. This June, UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that, given the heightened risk of nuclear annihilation, “humanity is ...