Alistair Millar argues that the U.S. should pursue greater transparency in tactical stockpiles and reductions of tactical nuclear weapons as they are a "more urgent concern from a proliferation standpoint" than strategic nuclear weapons.
The author, a strategic defense analyst, warns against decreasing the threshold for using tactical nuclear weapons.
William Arkin analyzes the recently disclosed "Nuclear Posture Review" and argues that the "call for development of new nuclear weapons that reduce 'collateral damage' myopically ignores the political, moral and military implications--short-term and long--of crossing the nuclear threshold."
Outlining a broad overhaul of American nuclear policy, a secret Pentagon report calls for developing new nuclear weapons that would be better suited for striking targets in Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria and Libya.
Former U.S. President Richard Nixon suggested dropping a nuclear bomb on North Vietnam in 1972, an idea rejected by then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger according to recently revealed documents and tapes.
China is expected to have as many as 100 long-range nuclear missiles aimed at the United States by 2015, many of them on hard-to-find mobile launchers, according to a new CIA report.
The Defense Department is studying whether to develop a new, low-yield nuclear weapon with an earth-penetrating nose cone that could knock out hardened or deeply buried targets such as leadership bunkers and command centers, according to administration and congressional sources.