New START expires: Will a new US-Russia nuclear arms race follow?
President Donald Trump "will decide the path forward on nuclear arms control, which he will clarify on his own timeline," a White House official told Breaking Defense.
Sweden weighs Franco-British nuclear weapons cooperation
"I say that when we joined NATO, we are fully involved in all discussions, including those in Europe revolving around nuclear weapons," Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said.
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Vice Adm. Richard Correll said that Trump's announcement does not necessarily mean detonating a test weapon — noting that neither China nor Russia has conducted a nuclear explosive test in recent memory.
Sweden sending Gripens to NATO’s Steadfast Noon nuclear drill, in historic first
“In an increasingly uncertain world, NATO needs a credible nuclear capability to prevent attacks against the Alliance. Steadfast Noon contributes to ensuring this,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in a written statement Friday.
Saudi-Pakistan defense pact brings new nuclear player to region
“The agreement stipulates that a foreign aggression on one is an attack on both,” Faisal Al Hamad, a retired Saudi Air Force Brigadier General and defense analyst, told Breaking Defense
Air Force takes first Minuteman III silo offline, in milestone towards Sentinel
The service said that requirements to keep 400 nuclear missiles on alert will not be impacted by the shuttering of a silo located at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.
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China’s nuclear arsenal surges 20% in one year, reaching over 600 warheads: SIPRI
The Chinese arsenal is still much smaller than that of Russia and the US, but Moscow is watching Beijing's buildup warily, one analyst told Breaking Defense.
America’s nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade, government report reveals
The estimated total rose by 25 percent over the last two years, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
How to leverage US nukes overseas
The US should use an international desire for nuclear weapons as geopolitical bargaining chips, write two nuclear experts.
A nuclear Poland? Logistics, political challenges ahead of potential Warsaw deal
“Poland’s history makes it very clear why they are concerned that the people they align with, and the people they rely on for protection from Russia, will abandon them,” Jon Wolfsthal, a former US government official now with the Federation of American Scientists, told Breaking Defense.
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US cyber vulnerabilities fuel N. Korea’s nuclear arsenal, but solutions are near: DARPA official
"We are essentially funding nuclear weapons development in North Korea with our bad software practices," said Kathleen Fisher, director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office.
How Trump’s ‘Iron Dome for America’ upends four decades of nuclear doctrine
The inclusion of space-based interceptors is a particularly hard nut for Moscow to swallow, given long-standing Russian belief that such weapons are aimed at undercutting the country’s nuclear retaliatory capability following a US first strike.
ChatNC3: Can the US trust AI in nuclear command, control and communications?
Self-driving cars still get into accidents on highways, an environment for which there is abundant data to train algorithms, expert Paul Scharre said. “What is the training data set we have for nuclear war?”
US completes $9B B61-12 nuclear warhead upgrade
Technically, the B61-12 is not a “new” nuclear weapon that increases the stockpile, as the US is taking the warheads from the older bombs and placing them in new housings.