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"Washington must prioritize urgent action to restore some order to the nuclear chaos and prevent these crises from escalating," expert Kelsey Davenport said.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The recent killing of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by CIA drone strike was the latest US response to 9/11. Politically, it amplified existing distrust between US leaders and the Taliban government in Afghanistan. The killing also exposed compromises in the 2020 Doha peace agreement between the US and the Taliban. World News | Bladed ‘Ninja Missile Used to Kill Al-Qaida Leader is Part of a Scary New Generation of Unregulated W...

By Peter Lee for The Conversation  The recent killing of Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by CIA drone strike was the latest US response to 9/11. Politically, it amplified existing distrust between US leaders and the Taliban government in Afghanistan. The killing also exposed compromises in the 2020 Doha peace agreement between the US and the Taliban.

New weapons will require new rules of war – but there is little appetite for regulation.

As the world faces heightened risks of nuclear weapons being used, the international community is opening discussions on Aug. 1 about how to contain t

If the growing nuclear threats in Asia are not curtailed, U.S. allies, most notably Japan and the Republic of Korea, may have to go nuclear to defend themselves.

We can and must stop NPT from unravelling

Canada once led the fight for a world without nukes. What happened?

Any post-war attempt to revive arms control will face four major challenges: the rise of China as a major nuclear power; new technology, including hypersonic missiles and drone swarms; US military budgetary constraints; and the possibility of increased nuclear proliferation. The new challenges will require new approaches, including, at the least, including China in any efforts to further extend New START limits on strategic nuclear weapons.

If disarmament is to be truly realistic, the world needs to change the conversation about nuclear weapons.