Doomsday Clock holds steady as global threats persist
Citing an international “mixed threat environment,” the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that its Doomsday Clock will remain at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year in a row.
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The Nuclear Posture Review: What it is and why it matters.
NTI’s Global Enterprise Convenes Officials from Latin America, Africa, and Asia Ahead of 10th NPT RevCon
Nunn and Moniz Discuss a Host of Security Issues on the CSIS “Schieffer Series”
NTI’s Lynn Rusten Discusses China’s Nuclear Expansion on Arms Control Association Panel
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NTI’s Global Enterprise Convenes Officials from Latin America, Africa, and Asia Ahead of 10th NPT RevCon
NTI's Global Enterprise to Strengthen Nonproliferation and Disarmament (GE), a Track 1.5 initiative that regularly convenes officials from more than 20 countries, along with several non-governmental experts, convened officials from Latin America, Africa, and Asia Ahead of 10th NPT RevCon.
NTI’s Lynn Rusten Discusses China’s Nuclear Expansion on Arms Control Association Panel
NTI's Lynn Rusten joined Rose Gottemoeller and Gerald Brown on a panel hosted by the Arms Control Association to discuss the ways in which the U.S. can foster an effective dialogue with China on confidence building measures and nuclear risk reduction.
NTI Seminar: Susan Eisenhower on “How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower’s Biggest Decisions”
From D-Day to Little Rock, from the Korean War to Cold War crises, from the Red Scare to the Missile Gap controversies, few people have made decisions as momentous as Dwight D. Eisenhower.
NTI at 20: Lynn Rusten on New Opportunities to Reduce Global Nuclear Threats and NTI’s Ability to Foster Progress
The scope of the Global Nuclear Policy Program (GNPP) at NTI is vast: Reducing reliance on nuclear weapons, preventing their use and their spread, and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world. Lynn Rusten isn’t daunted.
NTI at 20: Steve Andreasen on Non-Partisanship, Euro-Atlantic Security, and Working Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons
We hear from Steve Andreasen, whose career has taken him from the State Department and the National Security Council to the University of Minnesota to NTI.
The Good, the Bad and the Extraterrestrial: The Decades-Long Struggle to Dispose of Nuclear Waste
Reaching agreement on what to do with left-over nuclear material has eluded many scientists and engineers, politicians and publics for decades.
Semipalatinsk Closure at 30: The Importance of Cooperation for Managing Nuclear Security Challenges
"August 29 is a special date for many of us who work on nuclear risk reduction."
The State of Disarmament: NPT Progress since 2015
As leaders mark more than 50 years since the treaty entered into force in 1970, they will have to grapple with finding a way forward amid threats of new arms races and stalled efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation.
Paper Cranes, Messages of Peace Shared to Mark Anniversary of Atomic Bombings in Japan as Tokyo Olympics Close
One of the most hopeful events of the year, the summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, closed as the world marked the anniversaries of two of the darkest days in human history: the August 6 and August 9, 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Cranes For Our Future Campaign: Delivering a Message of Hope
The risk of nuclear disaster today is higher than it has been in years thanks to evolving and escalating risks posed by terrorists, cyber hackers, artificial intelligence, and a deteriorating arms-control architecture.
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