List of Weapons articles
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives to chair a U.N. Security Council meeting via a video link at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 31. Nuclear Blackmail Is a Sign of Russia’s Declining Power
Moscow can no longer both cooperate and compete on the global stage.
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Saudi fighter jets are displayed on March 6, 2022. Congress Has the Power to Halt U.S. Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
If Biden is genuinely committed to human rights, he won’t stand in the way of a bipartisan Senate resolution.
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A Likud Party election banner hanging from a building shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a caption above reading in Hebrew "Netanyahu, in another league", in Tel Aviv on July 28, 2019. How Modi and Bibi Built a Military Alliance
India and Israel have strengthened their defense ties in recent years—but a new book makes the relationship sound more sinister than it is.
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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife, Kim Keon-hee, give three cheers during the 104th Independence Movement Day ceremony in Seoul. South Korea Could Get Away With the Bomb
The global norm against nuclear proliferation is strong, but Seoul’s political and economic ties are stronger.
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Members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force attend a live-fire exercise at East Fuji Maneuver Area in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, on May 28, 2022. Japan Needs a Defense Industrial Revolution
If Tokyo is serious about protecting itself, it needs to kick-start its military manufacturing sector.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) attends a press conference with Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (L) at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran on June 25, 2022. The West Must Do More to Prevent Conflict With Iran
Washington is right to counter Iran's brutality at home and abroad, but that shouldn't stop it from engaging with an adversary to preserve regional peace.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state-of-the-nation address at the Gostiny Dvor conference center in central Moscow. Putin’s New START Announcement and the Future of Arms Control
Russia and the United States hold about 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. What happens when they’re no longer talking?
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A North Korean Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile lifts off from an undisclosed location near Pyongyang, North Korea, on Aug. 29, 2017. When the Same North Korea Policy Fails Over and Over Again
A veteran negotiator explains how Washington’s attempts at nonproliferation floundered.
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Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles during a military parade celebrating the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019. The United States and China Still Need to Talk About Nuclear Weapons
Biden and Blinken must not let the spy balloon controversy stand in the way of talks on nuclear crisis management and arms control.
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A high-altitude balloon floats in a blue sky. How a Chinese Spy Balloon Blew Up a Key U.S. Diplomatic Trip
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a visit to Beijing in response to a suspected spy balloon over U.S. territory.
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French President Emmanuel Macron, followed by French Armies Minister Sebastien Lecornu (2nd R), walks past a Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft at the Mont-de-Marsan air base, on Jan. 20. Europe Doesn’t Need the United States Anymore
Until EU leaders accept that the continent can stand on its own feet and Americans give up the role of global police, dependency on Washington will continue.
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The U.S. Abrams tanks, the German Leopard and the AHS Krab, a 155 mm NATO-compatible self-propelled tracked gun-howitzer seen at a training ground in Poland on Sept. 21, 2022. Will Tanks Turn the Tide for Ukraine?
Germany and the United States are sending Leopards and M1 Abrams tanks—but Washington’s desired endgame is still a mystery.
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Ukrainian artillerymen fire toward Russian positions at a front line in the Lugansk region of Ukraine. Subscriber Questions on Ukraine, Answered
German tanks, Russia’s looming offensive, and what the global south is waiting for.
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks following a funeral procession carrying the remains of 200 Iranian soldiers recovered from former battlefields of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War in Tehran on Dec. 27, 2022. Why Saudi Arabia Doesn’t Want Iran’s Regime to Fall
Riyadh seeks to leverage ongoing anti-government protests to extract geopolitical concessions from Tehran—not effect regime change.
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Physicist Vaughn Draggoo inspects a huge target chamber at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California in October 2001. Could Fusion Overcome Public Opposition to Nuclear Power?
Recent progress might lead to a nuclear energy source that produces no high-level radioactive waste and presents fewer proliferation concerns.
