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News Articles & Editorials

• Ankit Panda, Pakistan Conducts Second Test of Babur-3 Nuclear-Capable Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile, The Diplomat, 1 April 2018
• Jamie McIntyre, US nuclear commander says future sea-launched cruise missile ‘not a bargaining chip’, Washington Examiner, 26 March 2018
• Jeffrey Lewis, Russia’s Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile, Arms Control Wonk, 24 March 2018
• Rep Mike Rogers, Hill Must Fund Sea-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile & Lower Yield Warhead, Breaking Defense, 15 March 2018
• Jeff Merkely, Senators Press Trump Administration to Jumpstart New Security Talks with Russia, Open letter to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, 8 March 2018
• John Gower, The Dangerous Illogic of Twenty-First-Century Deterrence Through Planning for Nuclear Warfighting, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 6 March 2018
• Olga Oliker & Andrey Baklitskiy, The Nuclear Posture Review and Russian ‘De-Escalation:’ A Dangerous Solution to a Non-existent Problem, War on the Rocks, 20 February 2018
• Bruno Tertrais, Does Russia really include limited nuclear strikes in its large-scale military exercises?, IISS Survival, 15 February 2018
• Fred Kaplan, Nuclear Posturing, The Slate, 22 January 2018
• Andy Weber, Trump Wants New Nukes. We Can’t Let Him Have Them, Huffington Post, 19 January 2018
• Julian Borger, US to loosen nuclear weapons constraints and develop more ‘usable’ warheads, The Guardian, 9 January 2018
• William J. Perry and James E. Cartwright, Spending less on nuclear weapons could actually make us safer, The Washington Post, November 16, 2017
• Don Walton, Fischer says North Korea threat requires nuclear arms modernization, The Lincoln Star, November 8, 2017

• Franz-Stefan Gady, India Successfully Test Fires Indigenous Nuclear-Capable Cruise Missile The Diplomat, November 8, 2017

• Douglas Barrie, Cruising Toward Oblivion: Does the INF Treaty have a Future? European Leadership Network, 26 October 2017
• Ankit Panda, The Risks of Pakistan’s Sea-Based Nuclear Weapons The Diplomat, October 13, 2017
• Will Saetren, Five Facts About a Controversial Nuclear Weapon War on the Rocks, August 10, 2017
• Luke O’Brien, Does America Need Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles? The National Interest, June 12, 2017
• Christopher Rowland, Is Trump Setting the Stage for a New Nuclear Arms Race? The Boston Globe, June 3, 2017.
• TRT World, The World’s New Nuclear Arms Race, Part I and Part II, October 2016.
• Jon Harper, Future Nuclear Cruise Missile Faces Political Headwinds, National Defense Magazine, November 2016.
• Aaron Mehta, Clinton Criticism Could Mean Doom for LRSO, Defense News, September 30, 2016.
• William Broad and David Sanger, In Hacked Audio, Hillary Clinton Rethinks Obama’s Nuclear Upgrade Plan, The New York Times, September 29, 2016.
• Pat Host, Senators Urge Obama To Cancel Long Range Standoff Weapon, Defense Daily, July 22, 2016.
• Aaron Mehta, Senators Urge Obama To Cancel Nuclear Cruise Missile, Defense News, July 21, 2016.
• Richard Sisk, Air Force Doesn’t Need New Nuclear Cruise Missile, Lawmaker Says, DoDBuzz, July 7, 2016.
• Joe Gould and Aaron Mehta, After Nuclear Missile Loss, Dems Vow to Keep Fighting, Defense News, June 25, 3016.
• US Plan to Develop New Nuclear Missile Opposed, The Nation (Pakistan), June 20, 2016.
• Aaron Mehta, Nuclear Cruise Missile Survives Challenge in the House, Defense News, June 16, 2016.
• Aaron Mehta, Feinstein Takes Aim at Nuclear Cruise Missile Funding, Defense News, April 14, 2016.
• Editorial Board, From Hiroshima to a Nuke-Free World, The New York Times, April 12, 2016 (recommends President Obama cancel the U.S. air-launched cruise missile replacement plan if he delivers a speech in Hiroshima).
• Aaron Mehta, Is the Pentagon Budget About to Be Nuked? Defense News, February 5, 2016 (regarding broad U.S. nuclear modernization plans).
• William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War,The New York Times, April 16, 2016.
• Rachel Oswald, DOD Wants More Funding for Controversial Nuclear Missile, CQ NEWS
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• Editorial Board, A Nuclear Weapon the U.S. Doesn’t Need, Bloomberg News, February 1, 2016.
• Tatiana Braun, Global Ban on All Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles Needed, Top Disarmament Expert Says,The Astana Times, February 1, 2016.
• Editorial Board, Cruise Control, The Economist, January 23, 2016.
• William Broad and David Sanger, As U.S. Modernizes Nuclear Weapons, ‘Smaller’ Leaves Some Uneasy,The New York Times, January 11, 2016.
• Laura Seligman, AFA Urges Congress to Fund Long Range Standoff Weapon, Defense News, December 15, 2015.

Reports, Analysis & Debate

• Hans Kristensen, INF Weapons: Status, Modernisations, and Arms Control Prospects, TODA Peace Institute Policy Brief  25, October 2018
• Vladimir Baranovsky, Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles: Towards a Global Ban? Russia’s Perspective, TODA Peace Institute Policy Brief  24, October 2018
• Andy Weber, Nuclear Cruise Missiles Should Be Banned, TODA Peace Institute Policy Brief 12, 2 May 2018
• Laura Rockwood, Cruise Control: Can We End Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles Globally?, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non‑Proliferation, 24 April 2017
• Christine Parthemore, The Ambiguity Challenge: Why the World Needs a Multilateral Cruise Missile Agreement, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 2017.
• Christine Parthemore, Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles, Kyodo News, October 27, 2016.
• W. Pal Sidhu, The Perils of Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles, NYU Global Citizen, October 19, 2016.
• Will Saetren, Nuclear Tipped Cruise Missiles are a Relic of the Past, The National Interest, September 30, 2016
• Adam Lowther and Allen Agnes, Long Range Stand-Off Missile: The Indispensable Weapon, National Interest Online, July 10, 2016.
• Josh Wiitala, Three Reasons the U.S. Needs a Replacement Nuclear Cruise Missile, Real Clear Defense, July 6, 2016.
• Dianne Feinstein and Ellen O. Tauscher, A Nuclear Weapon That America Doesn’t Need, The New York Times, June 17, 2016.
• Adam Smith, America Already Has More Than Enough Nuclear Missiles, Foreign Policy, June 17, 2016.
• Michaela Dodge and Joe Venable, Why the United States Needs an LRSO Capability, Heritage Foundation Issue Brief, June 17, 2016.
• Kingston Reif, Examining the Flawed Rationale for a New Nuclear Air-Launched Cruise Missile, Arms Control Association, June 12, 2016.
• Hans Kristensen, Flawed Pentagon Nuclear Cruise Missile Advocacy, Federation of American Scientists, June 10, 2016.
• Sico van der Meer and Christine Parthemore, Revive Arms Control, and Start with Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles, War on the Rocks, June 8, 2016.
• Steven Pifer, LRSO Does Not Make Sense, Nor Do Its Proposed Numbers, Defense News, May 26, 2016.
• Luke O’Brien, On Cruise Missiles and White Elephants, War on the Rocks, May 9, 2016.
• Christine Parthemore, What Would Our Friends Think? Views from Allies on the Future of U.S. Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles, Medium.com, May 6, 2016.
• Will Saetren, Ghosts of the Cold War: Rethinking the Need for a New Nuclear Cruise Missile, Ploughshares Fund, April 20, 2016.
• Constance Baroudos, Why America Needs the Lethal Long-Range Standoff Cruise Missile, The National Interest, April 18, 2016.
• Kingston Reif, This Debate Over a New Cruise Missile Has Gone Nuclear, War on the Rocks, April 5, 2016.
• Al Mauroni, A Necessary Weapon: The Nuclear Enterprise Strikes Back, War on the Rocks, April 1, 2016.
• Hans Kristensen, Questions About The Nuclear Cruise Missile Mission, fas.org, March 25, 2016 (includes quotes from March 2016 Congressional hearings).
• Kingston Reif Cruise Control: Why the U.S. Should Not Buy a New Nuclear Air-Launched Cruise Missile,War on the Rocks
• Dave Majumdar, Why America Needs Lethal Nuclear Stealth Cruise Missiles, The National Interest, March 4, 2016.
• Fact Sheet: The New Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missile: Unneeded and Destabilizing, Union of Concerned Scientists, February 2016.
• Constance Baroudos, Standoff nukes aren’t just ‘nice to have’, Business Insider, February 22, 2016.
• William Lambers, No to Obama’s Nuclear Cruise Missile, Yes to Test Ban Treaty, Huffington Post, February 11, 2016
• Matthew Costlow, The New Nuclear Cruise Missile and the Stability Argument, Real Clear Defense, February 9, 2016.
• Alberto Perez Vadillo, America needs the LRSO… just in case, basicint.org, February 3, 2016.
• Factsheet: Is a New Nuclear Cruise Missile Necessary?, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, February 2, 2016.
• Stephen Young, US Is More Secure Without New, Nuclear-armed Cruise Missile, Defense News, January 13, 2016.
• Stephen Young, Just How New is the New, Nuclear-armed Cruise Missile? All Things Nuclear blog, January 13, 2015.
• Matthew Costlow, A Nuclear Bait-and-Switch With LRSO, Defense News, January 11, 2016.
• Michael Peck, America Doesn’t Need a New Nuclear Cruise Missile, The National Interest, December 24, 2015.
• Hans Kristensen, Forget LRSO; JASSM-ER Can Do The Job, fas.org, December 16, 2015.
• Vikram Singh and Christine Parthemore, Time to Internationalize the Dialogue on Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles, War on the Rocks, December 15, 2015.
• Amb. Steve Pifer, Who needs a new nuclear air-launched cruise missile anyway? December 10, 2015.
• Jim Doyle, You’re NUTS: New Nuclear Cruise Missiles are Inherently Destabilizing, The National Interest, November 30, 2015.
• Retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert Gard and Sarah Tully, Nuke Plans for a New Nuclear Cruise Missile, US News & World Report, November 27, 2015.
• Tom Nichols, The 1980s Called. They Don’t Need Their Cruise Missiles Back, The National Interest, November 3, 2015.
• Blake McMahon, The Nuclear Option: Long Range Strike & The Case For Dual-Use, Breaking Defense, October 29, 2015.
• Mel Deaile & Al Mauroni, Why We Still Need a Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missile, War on the Rocks, October 26, 2015.
• Hans Kristensen, LRSO: The Nuclear Cruise Missile Mission, FAS.org, October 20, 2015.
• Kingston Reif, Overkill: The Case Against a New Nuclear Air-Launched Cruise Missile, Arms Control Today, October 19, 2015.
• Secretary Bill Perry and Andy Weber, Mr President, Kill the New Cruise Missile, The Washington Post, Oct 15, 2015.
• Tom Collina, No More Nuclear-Tipped Cruise Missiles, Defense One, October 30, 2013.
• Secretary Philip Hammond, “The alternatives to Trident carry an enormous risk,” The Telegraph, February 3, 2013.

Other Relevant Resources

• Nuclear armed cruise missiles, Paper submitted by Sweden and Switzerland to the U.N. Open-ended Working Group, Geneva, 2016.
• Fall 2015 letter from 8 U.S. Senators to President Obama urging him to end the replacement program for the nuclear air-launched cruise missile.

Other Websites

• Deep Cuts Commission