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. …

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association After more than a decade of rising tensions and growing nuclear competition between the two largest nuclear-weapon states, U.S. …

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association For more than six decades, the United States has been worried about China’s regional influence, military activities-and nuclear potential. For instance, in 1958, U.S. officials considered using nuclear weapons to thwart Chinese artillery strikes on islands controlled by Taiwan, according to…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association After more than a decade of rising tensions and growing nuclear competition between the two major nuclear-weapon states, U.S. President Joe Biden has signaled he will confront Russia when necessary. …

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which will enter into force Jan. 22, marks a new, hopeful phase in the long-running struggle to prevent nuclear war and eliminate nuclear weapons. It comes at a time when the risk…

By Daryl G. Kimball Executive Director, Arms Control Association For the first three and a half years of President Donald Trump’s term in office, he and his team have dithered and delayed on nuclear arms control matters. Now, at the 11th hour, they are pursuing an ill-advised strategy that has…