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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.

After creating the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer looked for an arms control solution to prevent an unwinnable superpower nuclear arms race.

The action could come at the next International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting if Iran does not meet its legally binding safeguards obligations.

The intelligence community remains concerned that Russia could resort to the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and that North Korea is maneuvering to win acceptance as a nuclear- weapons state.

Washington still views negotiations as the only viable path to peace on the Korean peninsula but assesses that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is intent on aligning more closely with Russia and China.

U.S. Approves Funding for Pacific Island Nations

Russia’s nuclear threats and China's increased nuclear arsenal underscore the need for strong U.S. leadership for nuclear arms control diplomacy. Call on your Representatives to show their support for strong U.S. leadership by becoming a cosponsor of a resolution introduced this month. (March 2024)

The IAEA reports a small decrease in Iran’s 60 percent uranium stockpile, but no progress on the safeguards investigation. In the meantime, the annual U.S. Worldwide Threat Assessment, released after a Congressional hearing March 11, assesses that Iran is not engaged in weaponization activities.

Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun producers had been dismissed previously by a lower court.  

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

Whether such initiatives will help protect civilians and promote human rights in U.S. arms transfer decisions depends on Congress.

Meetings at the Pentagon were the first formal in-person talks since 2020.

The decision means that the remaining Russia-U.S. nuclear arms control treaty limiting the world’s largest nuclear arsenals will expire in 2026.

Under the Cap of Invisibility: The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle