CNS experts report the nature and scope of nuclear security risks prepared with support from the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
If Russia were faced with a large-scale conventional attack that exceeded its capacity for defense, it might respond with a limited nuclear strike.
The Ukrainian crisis would have been a nuclear crisis, if not for past US-Russian cooperation.
Some allege Russia is violating the INF Treaty. Other explanations deserve consideration, according to Senior Fellow Nikolai Sokov.
The US and Russia don’t have to use weapons-uranium for civil purposes. CNS Senior Researcher Miles Pomper explains how.
Conventional wisdom in Washington DC suggests the US is the only nuclear weapon state not modernizing its nuclear forces, but it is dead wrong.
Efforts by Kazakhstan, the US, and Russia secured plutonium at the Semipalatinsk test site & kept it from falling into the hands of terrorists.
It is possible that terrorists in the North Caucasus have the ability to construct and detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ at the Sochi Olympics?
Video interview on terrorism at the Sochi Olympics, Russia’s role in the removal of chemical weapons from Syria, and more.
