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"In my home there are few publications that we actually get hard copies of, but [Arms Control Today] is one and it's the only one my husband and I fight over who gets to read it first."

– Suzanne DiMaggio
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
April 15, 2019
Missiles and Missile Defense
  • Pentagon Awards Anti-Hypersonic Missile Contracts
    January 11, 2022

    The U.S. Missile Defense Agency awarded contracts to three companies to develop hypersonic missile prototypes.

  • A Small Step Toward an ASAT Ban
    December 1, 2021

    Last month, the UN First 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.

  • Revitalizing the Missile Technology Control Regime
    December 1, 2021

    The 34-year-old MTCR, an international export control regime, has slowed or stopped some significant missile programs but needs reform to deal with the increase in states adding ballistic and cruise missiles to their arsenals.

  • China’s Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems
    December 1, 2021

    Editors James M. Smith and Paul J. Bolt have produced an insightful book that enriches the public debate with a holistic and systematic examination of China’s nuclear strategy.

  • Pentagon Sees Faster Chinese Nuclear Expansion
    December 1, 2021

    China is accelerating its development of strategic nuclear warheads, more than doubling last year’s estimate, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s 2021 China military power report.

  • Russian ASAT Test Creates Massive Debris
    December 1, 2021

    Russia conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) test to destroy one of its own satellites, creating a large debris field and threatening space operations and human spaceflight.

  • India Tests Missile Capable of Reaching China
    December 1, 2021

    India successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in an apparent effort to signal advances in its nuclear deterrent to China.

  • U.S. Hypersonic Capabilities Advance
    November 1, 2021

    The Pentagon continued to move forward with the development and initial deployment of hypersonic capabilities as part of its race to keep pace with China and Russia.

  • China Tested Hypersonic Capability, U.S. Says
    November 1, 2021

    China has tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle, U.S. intelligence sources told the
    Financial Times.

  • North Korea Claims to Test Hypersonic Missile
    November 1, 2021

    North Korea claims to have conducted its first test of a new hypersonic missile, an achievement of “great strategic significance,” according to state media.

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