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"I find hope in the work of long-established groups such as the Arms Control Association...[and] I find hope in younger anti-nuclear activists and the movement around the world to formally ban the bomb."

– Vincent Intondi
Author, "African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement"
July 1, 2020
U.S. Nuclear Policy & Budget
  • U.S. Nuclear Costs, Projections Continue to Rise
    April 1, 2024

    The Biden administration’s $850 billion defense budget request for fiscal year 2025 would increase spending for Pentagon nuclear weapons programs by 31 percent over the current year.

  • Hiroshima A-Bomb Watch Auction: Seeing Under the Clouds
    March 5, 2024

    Without awareness and understanding of the human catastrophe, it is easy for us to treat past events as dull, esoteric history textbook contents.

  • Sentinel ICBM Exceeds Projected Cost by 37 Percent
    March 1, 2024

    The projected overrun would put the new intercontinental ballistic missile program in breach of a law designed to prevent major cost overruns.

  • Physicists Coalition D.C. Engagement Days
    January 19, 2024

    The Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction is inviting physical scientists and engineers to our inaugural Washington, D.C. Engagement Days to engage with policymakers and practitioners and encourage efforts to reduce nuclear weapons threats.

  • Congress Endorses New Nuclear Weapon
    January 11, 2024

    Congress authorized $260 million for a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile for fiscal year 2024, despite the Biden administration’s clear desire not to pursue the weapon’s development.

  • Upholding the CTBT Regime in a Time of Adversity
    November 7, 2023

    Russia’s move to withdraw its ratification from the 1996 treaty is a reminder that the de facto global test moratorium cannot be taken for granted.

  • Why We Must Reject Calls for a U.S. Nuclear Buildup
    November 1, 2023

    The experience of the Cold War teaches us that an unconstrained arms race has no winners, only losers. Leaders in Beijing, Moscow, and Washington need to engage in nuclear risk reduction talks, negotiate sensible and verifiable reductions of their arsenals, and refrain from building new destabilizing types of weapons rather than proceed down the dangerous path of unconstrained nuclear competition.

  • A Not-So-Strategic Posture Commission
    November 1, 2023

    For the bipartisan commission charged with recommending how the United States should deal simultaneously with two nuclear-capable adversaries, the “answer to an arms race is an arms race.”

  • Congress Aims to Fund Nuclear Weapon Opposed by Biden
    November 1, 2023

    Some lawmakers argue that the nuclear sea-launched cruise missile “fills the gap” in the U.S. tactical nuclear arsenal.

  • The Risks That AI Poses for Nuclear Decision-Making: End of an Era
    October 31, 2023

    Special report roll-out on the risks that artificial intelligence poses to nuclear decision-making and strategic stability, co-hosted by the European Leadership Network (ELN) and the Arms Control Association (ACA).

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