This piece is part of the CSIS International Security Program’s Transition46 series on Defense360. The last remaining bilateral arms control treaty between the United States and Russia—the New ...

As the clock struck midnight on Nov. 7 in Moscow, the Kremlin defiantly renounced its membership in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), once thought of as a pillar of European ...

With Russia’s war against Ukraine in its second year and tensions growing in the U.S.-Chinese relationship, nuclear weapons are back on the global political agenda. At a summit in Hiroshima on May 19, ...

While the U.S.-Russian relationship continues to be a useful model for thinking about the future, looking at a broader range of experiences shows that arms control is possible both when geopolitics ...

The United States does not have an interest in engaging in zero-sum competition with other major powers: the COVID-19 pandemic has also vividly illustrated the dangerous global dysfunction resulting ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has illuminated longstanding cracks in the nuclear arms control regime. Legacy arms control tools had little utility as Russia eschewed arms control agreements and ...