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March 1, 2021
Two Remain in Contention to Lead CTBTO
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March 1, 2021
Two States Ratify the CTBT
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January 15, 2021In this analysis we have outlined what we believe to be the five most important sets of nuclear weapons policy challenges and decisions that the new Biden administration will need to address in its first 100 days and beyond, along with recommendations for effectively dealing with each of these policy challenges.
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November 1, 2020
After resolving a voting rights issue, CTBTO members are now able to select the organization’s next leader.
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October 26, 2020Members of Congress continue to push back against the Trump administration’s reported consideration of a nuclear weapons test as negotiators from the House and Senate soon meet to determine whether to allocate funds for such a potential test in next year’s defense bill.
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October 1, 2020
Financial difficulties among the nuclear test ban treaty’s states-parties are complicating efforts to select the next leader of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization.
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September 21, 2020
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September 3, 2020
This discussion with Ambassador Erzhan Kazykhanov and an expert panel, we discuss the 75-year history of nuclear tests, current threats to the global test ban, how states can address threats to the global test ban and reinforce it at the upcoming NPT review conference, and what can be done to assist populations adversely affected by nuclear tests.
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September 1, 2020
Trump administration interest in nuclear testing has spurred lawmakers to address the issue in a major military spending bill and policy.
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July 28, 2020
Seventy-five years ago, the nuclear age began with the world's first nuclear weapons test explosion in the New Mexico desert. In this annotated "silent film"-style video essay from the Arms Control Association, we learn about the events that transpired three weeks later with the atomic attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.