by Scott Yundt | Feb 19, 2026 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons, TVC in the News
On February 13, Tri-Valley CAREs’ Executive Director, Scott Yundt, talked with Chris Nelson on the Peace and Justice Program on KZFR 90.1 FM on a variety of nuclear weapons topics! Some of the topics discussed include: nuclear testing, the Sentinel ICBM program,...
by Scott Yundt | Feb 18, 2026 | Nuclear Weapons
President Donald Trump announced in February on social media he would ask Congress for a $1.5 trillion defense budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027–a massive $500 billion increase from this year’s Pentagon budget of $1 trillion! The National Defense Authorization Act...
by Scott Yundt | Feb 2, 2026 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia – the New START Agreement – is set to expire on February 5, 2026, just this week! Signed in 2010, the New START Agreement limits the number of strategic (long-range) nuclear warheads...
by Scott Yundt | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
January 22, 2026 marked the fifth anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)! On January 22, 2021, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. The TPNW makes all facets of...
by Scott Yundt | Jan 27, 2026 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Credit: Jamie Christiaini Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its “Doomsday Clock” to the closest to midnight it has ever been. Due to the increased likelihood that humanity will suffer a global catastrophe, we...
by Scott Yundt | Jan 8, 2026 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
The series of articles from the January 6 USA Today examines the costs – financial and human – of upgrading U.S. land-based nuclear missile silos, of which there are 450 located in the Midwest. The concept of the nuclear sponge is that this leg of the...
