This piece is part of the CSIS International Security Program’s Transition46 series on Defense360. The last remaining bilateral arms control treaty between the United States and Russia—the New ...

As the clock struck midnight on Nov. 7 in Moscow, the Kremlin defiantly renounced its membership in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), once thought of as a pillar of European ...

While the U.S.-Russian relationship continues to be a useful model for thinking about the future, looking at a broader range of experiences shows that arms control is possible both when geopolitics ...

With Russia’s war against Ukraine in its second year and tensions growing in the U.S.-Chinese relationship, nuclear weapons are back on the global political agenda. At a summit in Hiroshima on May 19, ...

On Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. prepared for a dramatic and sudden military response to the worst attack on American soil in the country’s history. But there was a problem. Normal military communications ...

Arbide Aza, H. and Miguel González. 2022. “US Offered Disarmament Measures to Russia in Exchange for Deescalation of Military Threat in Ukraine.” El Pais ...

Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has maintained a so-called Doomsday Clock designed to indicate how close the world was to a catastrophe caused by nuclear war or, more recently, other ...