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Watching "A House of Dynamite"?

We have the analysis you need to understand all the film’s details and whether your fears are valid. Spoiler alert: they are.

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“The war in Ukraine demonstrated that nuclear weapons have no military use.”

Senior Policy Director John Erath was interviewed by CNN Portugal about nuclear weapons in the Russian war on Ukraine. The original article is in Portuguese. INTERVIEW || John Erath, policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, does not believe we are on the verge of a new global nuclear arms race. However, […]

Reflections On My Fall Internship: Julia Cooper

By Julia Cooper, Policy Intern, Fall 2025 When I was 13, at a luncheon for DACOR, I heard military leaders saying that having more nuclear weapons makes the United States safer — which didn’t seem quite right to me. This piqued my interest in nuclear weapons, and I had my first taste of the nuclear […]

Boomtown: How Futuristic Weapons Could Power Albuquerque

Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Undark about directed energy research. Academic researchers like Schamiloglu, though, are working on solving those problems. And according to Harrison and Richardson, the need for that kind of basic research is keeping directed energy funding stable. That’s not true of funding for other fields of science. “You look to where […]

A House of Dynamite, Eisenhower and Lessons for Non-Proliferation

By Julia Cooper, Policy Intern, Fall 2025 In Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller A House of Dynamite, allusions to President Dwight Eisenhower are present throughout. Portraited just over the Secretary of Defense’s shoulder in the film, Eisenhower’s watchful gaze serves as a reminder that many present-day challenges in nuclear policy have been around since the 1950s […]

Experts: Full nuclear weapons tests would backfire on US

Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Defense News about President Trump’s comments to restart nuclear testing. At the time, said John Erath, the senior policy director for the Washington-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a global movement against nuclear testing was on the rise. The United States joined that effort in part because it did […]

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