Nuclear Missions & Forces 

Comments on Republican Policy Paper, "Nuclear Deterrence"
The United States Senate Republican Policy Committee recently published a Position Paper, Maintaining Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century. The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has written a five page response pointing out what we believe are some errors in logic, points of fact, and strategy.

Nuclear Missions & Forces
A decade and a half after the end of the Cold War Russia and the United States keep thousands of nuclear weapons, most with explosive force equivalent to hundreds of thousands of tons of TNT, ready to launch at a moment's notice. Yet we are near the endof a long process of having nuclear weapons displaced by advanced conventional weapons.