ARMS CONTROL TODAY
November 2023
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FEATURES:
A New Argument for Nuclear Arms Control: Climate Change
By Kenneth C. Brill
Dealing with this new threat to prosperity and stability will require a recognition that weapons of war are not the best defense against the most sustained threats of the 21st century and beyond. (Login required)
Reducing Tensions Over Nuclear Testing at Very Low Yield
By Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin, Christopher Fichtlscherer and Frank N. von Hippel
Given rising nuclear tensions involving China, Russia, and the United States, it is imperative that key states discuss a new transparency and verification regime for very low-yield nuclear tests.
Russia, the CTBT, and International Law
By David A. Koplow
Even after withdrawing its ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Russia would still be obligated to refrain from nuclear testing.
Using Multilateralism to Fill the Space Policy Vacuum
By Il-hoon Kim
Norms alone are not the silver bullet but they are an indispensable component of future space security governance. (Login required)
A Not-So-Strategic Posture Commission
By Adam Mount
For the bipartisan commission charged with recommending how the United States should deal simultaneously with two nuclear-capable adversaries, the “answer to an arms race is an arms race.”
FOCUS
Why We Must Reject Calls for a U.S. Nuclear Buildup
By Daryl G. Kimball
NEWS & ANALYSIS
• Saudi Push for Enrichment Raises Concerns
• UN Missile Sanctions on Iran Expire
• U.S. Says North Korea Shipped Arms to Russia
• Russian Parliament ‘Deratifies’ Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• Ukraine Uses New U.S. Missile Against Russia
• U.S. Formalizes Agreements With the Marshall Islands
• A New U.S. Strategy Against WMD Threats
• Congress Aims to Fund Nuclear Weapon Opposed by Biden
• Test Failures Put Hypersonic Program in Doubt
• States Pass Resolution to Reform IAEA Board
• Nuclear Ban Treaty Members to Meet in November
NEWS BRIEFS
• U.S. Conducts Test Ban Verification Experiment
• China Continues Nuclear Buildup
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