Nuclear Issues Today

During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union created briefcases that allowed their respective leaders to order a nuclear attack within minutes.

On July 7, 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was approved by the United Nations General Assembly. The treaty banned the use, possession, development, testing, and transfer of nuclear weapons.

One of the Manhattan Project’s many legacies is the development of peaceful nuclear reactors.

This article summarizes multilateral and bilateral treaties dealing with non-proliferation, limitation, and reduction of nuclear weapons.

This article summarizes multilateral and bilateral nuclear weapon test ban treaties.

This article discusses Nuclear Weapon Free Zones and other denuclearization agreements.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a journal founded in 1945 that analyzes nuclear policy challenges.

The unprecedented use of nuclear weapons in World War II served as the starting point for an ongoing era of nuclear proliferation.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 created a number of problems for the international community with regards to nuclear weapons.