Arms Control

U.S. successfully conducts SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test against an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Target The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Finn (DDG-113), an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped destroyer, intercepted and destroyed a threat-representative Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight test demonstration in the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii, Nov. 16 At approximately 7:50 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time, (12:50 a.m., Nov. 17, Eastern Standard Time), the ICBM-representative target was launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, toward the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii. In this developmental test, the destroyer used engage-on-remote capabilities through the Command and Control Battle Management Communications (C2BMC) network as part of a defense of Hawaii scenario. After receiving tracking data from the C2BMC system, the destroyer launched a SM-3 Block IIA guided missile which destroyed the target.Where: Hawaii, United StatesWhen: 16 Nov 2020Credit: MDA/Cover-Images.com**VIDEOS AVAIL & MORE WORDS: INFO@COVERMG.COM**

Missile defense and the offense-defense relationship

Andrey Baklitskiy, James Cameron, and Steven Pifer

October 2021

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer assigned to the 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, is joined by Republic of Korea air force F-15s, during a 10-hour mission from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, into Japanese airspace and over the Korean Peninsula, July 30, 2017. Photo taken July 30, 2017. Tech. Sgt. Kamaile Casillas/Pacific Air Forces/DVIDS/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

No first use of nuclear weapons is still a bridge too far, but Biden can make progress toward that goal

October 2021

Handout file photo dated September 28, 2021 of the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN 771) conducts tactical maneuvers and naval formations during a training exercise. A US navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to sell nuclear secrets to what they thought was a foreign state. Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana were arrested in West Virginia on Saturday, the Justice Department announced. They allegedly tried to sell nuclear submarine design data, hidden in a peanut butter sandwich, to someone they thought represented another country. In fact, it was an undercover FBI agent. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James S. Hong via ABACAPRESS.COM

Go bold or go home: The Nuclear Posture Review must give Biden real options

Thursday, October 7, 2021

A Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie unmanned aircraft demonstrates launching a drone from an internal bay.

Applying arms-control frameworks to autonomous weapons

Zachary Kallenborn

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile streaks through the sky of Vandenberg in California. An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile streaks through the sky of Vandenberg in California August 25, 2005. The missile's single unarmed re-entry vehicle is expected to travel approximately 6759 km (4200 miles) in about 30 minutes, hitting a pre-determined target at the Ronald Reagan Test Site near the Kwajalein Atoll in the western chain of the Marshall Islands. The Minuteman is a strategic weapon system using a ballistic missile of intercontinental range.

Strengthen US security through nuclear arms reductions

Ami Bera and Steven Pifer

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Pakistani military personnel stand beside short-range Surface to Surface Missile NASR during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags are set up for a meeting at China's Ministry of Transport in Beijing, China April 27, 2018. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo

Prospects for US-China strategic stability and crisis management

Susan A. Thornton

Stimson Monday, August 2, 2021

German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Armin Laschet, Green party co-leader Annalena Baerbock and German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) attend a television debate in Berlin, Germany, June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Christian Mang/Pool

Germany’s upcoming election and the future of nuclear sharing

July 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden walks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, France's President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after posing for the G-7 family photo with guests at the G-7 summit, in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain June 11, 2021. Patrick Semansky/Pool via REUTERS

Around the halls: Impressions and conclusions from President Biden’s first international trip

Madiha Afzal, Giovanna De Maio, James Goldgeier, Patrick W. Quirk, Bruce Riedel, Angela Stent, and Caitlin Talmadge

Friday, June 18, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they arrive for the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland June 16, 2021. Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

What did the Biden-Putin summit do for US-Russian relations?

Angela Stent and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Russian service members drive T-34 Soviet-era tanks during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

The art of negotiating non-strategic nuclear weapons

Friday, June 4, 2021

Components of SSC-8/9M729 cruise missile system are on display during a news briefing, organized by Russian defence and foreign ministries, at Patriot Expocentre near Moscow, Russia January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Germany’s role in US-Russian nuclear arms control

Thursday, June 3, 2021

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.A security official stands in front of the Bushehr nuclear reactor, 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran, August 21, 2010. Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant on Saturday, a potent symbol of its growing regional sway and rejection of international sanctions designed to prevent it building a nuclear bomb. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)

From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone?

Thursday, May 27, 2021

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From the Iran nuclear deal to a Middle East Zone? Lessons from the JCPOA for an ME WMDFZ

Contributions by Robert Einhorn

2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden looks through binoculars to see North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette during a tour of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the military border separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, December 7, 2013. REUTERS/Lee Jin-man/Pool/File Photo

The rollout of the Biden administration’s North Korea policy review leaves unanswered questions

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

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US-China Nuclear Relations: The Impact of Strategic Triangles

Contributions by Robert Einhorn

2021

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews Iran's new nuclear achievements during Iran's National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, Iran April 10, 2021. Iranian Presidency Office/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Will Natanz attack, uranium enrichment derail nuclear diplomacy with Iran?

Robert Einhorn and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile is test-launched from the Ohio-class U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of California, U.S. March 26, 2018. Picture taken March 26, 2018. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald Gutridge/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

Nuclear arms control in the 2020s

Thursday, April 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ceremony to inaugurate the start of construction on the first phase of a project to eventually build 50,000 new apartments, in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released March 24, 2021 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA./File Photo

The key choices now facing the Biden administration on North Korea

38 North Tuesday, March 30, 2021

A U-2 spy plane that is being used to test AI applications lands at an air field.

It is time to negotiate global treaties on artificial intelligence

John R. Allen and Darrell M. West

Wednesday, March 24, 2021