Deterrence Summit News Today

Given the serious cost, scheduling, and scientific questions about the US government's program for producing new plutonium cores (or pits) for nuclear warheads, the authors recommend the program be scaled back to manufacture 10 to 20 pits per year. Such a demonstration production line would establish the capacity to produce pits, if further research shows they are needed.

What does the nuclear weapons industry talk about when they’re together? I spent three days with 530 government officials, politicians, and corporate

Cipher Brief Senior National Security Columnist Walter Pincus questions why the U.S. needs more nuclear weapons

The development of the cutting-edge bomber has been sped up by the utilization of advanced technologies, including digital engineering.