By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association Since the end of the Cold War, every U.S. president has conducted an in-depth review of the nation’s nuclear strategy. Each study, including President Joe Biden’s 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), has produced disappointing results. That is because they all maintain…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a massive assault on independent, democratic, non-nuclear Ukraine has unleashed a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions, and raised the risk of nuclear conflict. Instead of reverting to destabilizing Cold War-era behaviors, leaders…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine, along with his implied threats of nuclear weapons use against any who would interfere, has raised the specter of nuclear conflict. …

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, waged under the threat of nuclear weapons use, has delivered a shocking reminder of an existential danger that did not disappear with the end of the Cold War. Putin’s aggression increases the potential for…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association President Vladimir Putin has chosen the path of destruction instead of diplomacy. His months-long buildup of a massive Russian invasion force encircling Ukraine and his decision on Feb. 21 to order Russian soldiers into the eastern Ukrainian provinces of Luhansk and…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association On Jan. 3, the leaders of the five nuclear-armed members of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) issued a rare joint statement on preventing nuclear war in which they affirmed, for the first time, the 1985 Reagan-Gorbachev maxim that “a nuclear war…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association Last month, the UN General AssemblyFirst Committee, responsible for international security, approved a compromise resolution that sets into motion a new open-ended working group to develop rules of the road for military activities in space. If key countries, including the United…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association Twenty-six years ago, as states-parties negotiated the terms for the extension of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the future of the treaty was not assured. Yet at the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference, the world came together, committed to the…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association For the first five decades of the nuclear age, nuclear weapons test explosions were the most visible symbol of the dangers of nuclear weapons and the omnipresent threat of nuclear war. …