The Pentagon’s plans for future nuclear weapons delivery systems are coming sharply into focus with this year’s budget request. In all the coverage of the exorbitant $1.5 trillion defense top-line, analysts have so far overlooked an important development: clear signs that the next generation of U.S. nuclear weapons delivery systems will be non-ballistic hypersonic missiles and reentry vehicles.
By Matthew Bunn, Arms Control Today
An Interview with Mohamad Katoub, Syrian Ambassador to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Arms Control Today
As diplomats in New York reach the end of the first week of the four week-long Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon), the meeting is on schedule and on course but it remains highly uncertain whether they can navigate a safe course through a large array of contested issues to arrive at a consensus final document that bolsters and reaffirms support for the treaty and charts out concrete action step for the next five years.
May 2026 Digital Magazine
