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The U.S. president-elect wants to reengage with Iran, but Israel has other plans.

The country has good reason to want first-strike capabilities. But the actual state of its arsenal suggests that it won’t get them.

Declassified documents show how Moscow struggled to understand Beijing’s efforts.

But Russian negotiators still haven’t agreed to stepped-up verification of its nuclear warheads, a major sticking point.

In the military parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the ruling communist party, Pyongyang showed its claws and sought to bolster domestic support for the regime.

Internal documents acknowledge concern among allies about the expiration of the Obama-era New START accord, but U.S. negotiators are still playing hardball.

Competition among China, Russia, and the West is taking the form of a battle to build reactors in Eastern Europe.

Pyongyang will never accept the shelter of another power’s nuclear umbrella.

The sudden departure of Brian Hook leaves the Trump administration scrambling to snatch some victory after two years of “maximum pressure” on Iran.

Trump’s Iran gambit is sweeping, punitive, and has little chance of success.

Seventy-five years after the first nuclear bomb fell, we are grateful it hasn’t happened again, mystified it didn’t, and terrified it still might.

Obama’s New START arms treaty limited Russian and American nukes. Now, U.S. officials want to rope in Beijing.

One of America’s weirdest strategic obsessions won’t go away.

But the draft has little support among major powers at the U.N., reflecting Washington’s isolation on its Iran policy.

Iran is resuming its enrichment of uranium, Syrian mercenaries are in Libya, and the Taliban are exploiting the coronavirus.

A U.N. panel concludes that the U.S. president’s outreach to Kim Jong Un has changed little in his behavior. 

As tensions escalate, Iran’s leadership appears to be considering withdrawing from the global nonproliferation framework entirely.

Deterrence theorists are pushing ideas that have never been tested.