Public Interest Report

By Monica Amarelo On May 11, the Federation of American Scientists premiered the documentary “Paths to Zero” at the United Nations during the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT RevCon).  The film screening was part of FAS’s official presence through the UN Office of Disarmament [...]

By Alicia Godsberg The 8th Review Conference (RevCon) to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons took place at the United Nations in May 2010. The conference opened with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the number of weapons it has dismantled since 1991.  It closed [...]

By Hans Kristensen On May 3rd, the Obama administration formally disclosed the size of the Defense Department’s stockpile of nuclear weapons: 5,113 warheads as of September 30, 2009. For a national secret, estimates by FAS analysts were only off by 13 warheads. By the end of May, the new British government disclosed its total military [...]

By Ivan Oelrich and Hans Kristensen On April 8, 2010, President Obama joined  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Prague to sign the New START Treaty, a new arms reduction pact that will reduce the nuclear stockpile in the United States and Russia, and commits both countries to new procedures to verify the weapons each possesses. [...]

By Hans Kristensen In April 2010, the Obama administration released its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) — a review that determines the role of nuclear weapons and establishes U.S. nuclear policy and strategy for the next five to ten years. This NPR contains strong language that commits the United States to work for nonproliferation. And for [...]