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Nuclear tests were carried out there in complete secrecy and absolute denial of harmful effects of the radiation fallout.”   Nearly 1.5 million Kazakh people have suffered as a result of the 456 nuclear tests (340 underground and 116 aboveground) conducted for more than four decades at the Semipalatinsk polygon.    BY ASSEM ASSANIYAZ    28 AUGUST 2023 LONDON –…

Satellite imagery and other open-source information are helping analysts unveil Putin’s new nuclear sharing posture in Belarus.

JFKs speech set the world on edge. Strategic Air Command and the thousands of airmen it commanded from its headquarters at Offutt were players in the Cuban missile crisis.

The world is watching The echoes of Vietnam in President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal are unmistakable. We fought for 20 years in Afghanistan, lost 2,448 Americans, and spent billions of dollars, only to be left with the same haunting question we faced in 1973 when President Richard Nixon pulled U.S. forces out of Vietnam: What did we accomplish? Perhaps it’s best to leave that loaded question to historians and those less passionate and implicated in that conflict. Right now, ou...

This Week’s Highlights A very useful step for Moscow and Washington would be to revive the practice of convening bi-annual U.S.-Russian meetings at the assistant/under-secretary or deputy foreign minister level, suggest Prof. William C. Potter, founding director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and Anton Khlopkov, founding director of the Center for Energy and Security Studies in Moscow. They also note that it would be worthwhile to resurrect a number of the arms cont...

Amb. Laura Holgate to Chair the Forum’s Board Washington, DC – Today, the Stimson Center announced the launch of the International Nuclear Security Forum (INSF) , a new project that unites a diverse group of international experts to identify, create, and support strategies for reducing nuclear terrorism risks. The Forum aims to be the leading space for the nuclear security community to collaborate and share expertise, educate stakeholders, support international nuclear security...