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Incidents involving nuclear weapons policy, including threats of nuclear use, expansion of nuclear arsenals, withdrawal from arms control treaties, and violations of non-proliferation obligations.

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Updated March 26, 2026 Foreign Policy & War
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Ongoing

New START Treaty Expires: First Time Since 1970s With No Nuclear Arms Control

The expiration of the last US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty ends over five decades of binding limits on the world's two largest nuclear arsenals. No replacement is under negotiation. The loss of verification mechanisms, data exchange, and warhead caps risks an unconstrained nuclear arms race at a time of peak geopolitical tension.

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Updated March 27, 2026 Federal Dismantlement
Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

DOGE Fires 350 Nuclear Weapons Workers at NNSA, Including Pantex Warhead Assemblers

DOGE fired 350 NNSA nuclear weapons workers, including warhead assemblers at Pantex and radioactive waste managers at Savannah River, as part of a 2,000-person Department of Energy purge. Most firings were rescinded within 24 hours after bipartisan alarm over nuclear stockpile security, but the incident exposed DOGE's indiscriminate approach to agencies with critical national security functions.

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