The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty lapsed on February 5, 2026. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will seek a better agreement, and Washington wants to bring in China and limit all Russian nuclear warheads, not just the deployed strategic warheads captured by New START.
President Trump returned to the White House in 2025 claiming he would quickly end the Russia-Ukraine war. But the sides today remain far apart on key issues while the war rages on.
In this episode of The Negotiator Files, Rose Gottemoeller discusses her role as the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
CISAC Fellow, Elizabeth Good, reflects on women's descriptive representation in peace negotiations and what meaningful inclusion requires for peace processes.
On the World Class podcast, Michael McFaul officially hands the hosting baton over to FSI's new director, Colin Kahl, who makes the case for why alliances and partnerships — whether across academic departments or between nations — create better, stronger outcomes.
Rose joins the podcast to discuss her experience negotiating NST, how the United States and Russia managed gaps between treaty's in the past, and what she thinks should happen next.
Speaking on the APARC Briefing video series, Larry Diamond and Oriana Skylar Mastro analyze the strategic implications of the U.S. operation in Venezuela for the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait, Indo-Pacific security, America’s alliances, and the liberal international order.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in his end-of-the-year press conference that Western “promises that they had given us about refraining from expanding NATO were being ignored.”
"Serious legal objections to Maduro's regime do not eliminate the need for a legal basis to use military force in Venezuela," said Tom Dannenbaum, Frank Stanton professor of nuclear security.
A long-running collaboration between CISAC co-director Scott Sagan and Dartmouth professor Ben Valentino offers new insight into how real-world information environments shape nuclear decision-making.
Senior research scholar, Andrew Bell, discusses why Donald Trump has ordered multiple boat strikes in the Caribbean, which have killed at least 80 people. And whether this could splinter the MAGA movement.
The 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is on the path to a quiet death in two months. The treaty’s demise will end the last agreement constraining US and Russian nuclear weapons.
Almost 500 patients, their relatives and others were killed at al-Fashir's last functioning hospital during the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' recent takeover of the Sudanese city, the World Health Organization reported. The attack is an example of increasingly targeted and brutal attacks on hospitals, clinics and medical workers during conflict worldwide, a Reuters investigation found.
The Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement is the American Academy of Sciences and Letters premier recognition of excellence in scholarship.
In an October 29 Truth Social post, President Donald Trump said he had ordered the Defense Department to resume testing U.S. nuclear weapons. Four days later, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright clarified that the United States did not intend to conduct nuclear explosive tests.
In partnership with international cybersecurity agencies, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) outlined security best practices for organizations that use on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server.
