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 27, 2026Federal Dismantlement
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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 …
On February 13, 2025, approximately 350 NNSA employees were abruptly terminated as part of a DOGE purge across the Department of Energy …
The Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas — where nuclear warheads are assembled and disassembled — absorbed about 30% of the cuts. Fired …
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Updated March 26, 2026Foreign Policy & War
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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 …
New START expired on February 5, 2026, ending the last legally binding limits on US and Russian nuclear arsenals — 1,550 deployed strategic …
This marks the first time since the early 1970s that there are no binding nuclear arms control agreements between the two nations that …
Trump directed the Pentagon to match other nations' nuclear testing programs, breaking a moratorium that has held since 1992 and threatening to collapse the global norm against nuclear testing that …
On October 30, 2025, Trump publicly directed the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, stating the US should match 'other countries' …
The US has not conducted a live nuclear weapons test since 1992, when President George H.W. Bush imposed a unilateral testing moratorium. No …