No First Use” is a commitment to never use nuclear weapons first under any circumstances, whether as a preemptive attack or first strike, or in response to non-nuclear attack of any kind.
UVA Center for Politics: Did Russian Interference Affect the 2016 Election Results?
UVAAugust 13, 2019
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s recent testimony was a reminder that Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 election and very well may try to do so again in 2020. This begs the question: Is there any evidence that Russian interference may have impacted the results, particularly in key states?
Alice Slater: Time to Tell the Truth About US-Russia Relations and the Bomb
IDNAugust 13, 2019
August 6 and 9 mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki.
Gar Alperovitz: The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Knew It
the nationAugust 13, 2019
Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth?
Dimitri K. Simes: Delusions About Russia
TNIAugust 12, 2019
The same experts who are terrified of confrontation with North Korea, with its rudimentary nuclear arsenal, or Iran, which has no nuclear arsenal at all, take a remarkably cavalier approach towards the prospect of a clash with Russia.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above Manhattan?
bulletin.orgAugust 12, 2019
Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles are believed to carry a total of approximately 1,000 strategic nuclear warheads that can hit the US less than 30 minutes after being launched. Of this total, about 700 warheads are rated at 800 kilotons; that is, each has the explosive power of 800,000 tons of TNT.
Eugene Rumer: The U.S. Might Sanction a Russian Pipeline to Germany. That’s a Terrible Idea.
politicoAugust 12, 2019
Don’t just sit there, sanction someone” should be the motto for U.S. foreign policy these days…
Ernest J. Moniz And Sam Nunn: The Return of Doomsday
FAAugust 11, 2019
The New Nuclear Arms Race—and How Washington and Moscow Can Stop It.
Steven Erlanger: Are We Headed for Another Expensive Nuclear Arms Race? Could Be.
NYTAugust 11, 2019
After the recent death of the treaty covering intermediate-range missiles, a new arms race appears to be taking shape, drawing in more players, more money and more weapons at a time of increased global instability and anxiety about nuclear proliferation.
Simon Saradzhyan: How High Is Risk of Nuclear War Between Russia and US?
Russia mattersAugust 11, 2019
Whatever the risks of nuclear war, they are bound to grow further if the end of the INF Treaty is followed by the demise of New START and U.S. withdrawal from the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, according to Nunn and Moniz. I cannot agree more.