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How ‘The Brink of War’ Calls Us to Action

At a pre-release screening of the movie, writer and director Michael Russell Gunn and producer Tyler Zacharia shared with viewers that their main takeaway from the film was the power of talking and, most importantly, listening to people we disagree with. And while this is certainly true, this movie offers many more lessons for the world we live in today.

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How ‘The Brink of War’ Calls Us to Action

by Emma Sandifer In 1986, with the Cold War winding down and the Soviet Union on its last legs, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in a tiny house on the coast of Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide whether there would be peace or war in the world.   The new movie, […]

Reflections On My Summer Internship: Lyle Seeligson

by Lyle Seeligson, Policy Intern, Summer 2026 My first conversation about nuclear weapons was with my mother.   It was 2008; I had just turned ten years old. She explained that we were in a war in a place called Iraq. She told me how the war had been started because we thought Iraq had dangerous weapons. She said I shouldn’t worry, though — those weapons […]

The United States has a responsibility to uphold non-proliferation norms. Here’s how it can.

By Conor Donlevy On December 2, 1942, Manhattan Project scientists working at the University of Chicago (including our sister organization’s founder, Leo Szilard) created the first sustained, man-made nuclear chain reaction underneath the stands of a football field using a pile of graphite and uranium. The reactor was dubbed the “Chicago Pile-1” and its success […]

Why a Saudi nuclear deal is a perfect metaphor for Trump’s presidency

Senior Policy Director spoke with CNN about the potential lack of IAEA protocols in a recent proposed but not yet publicly available U.S. deal with the Saudi Arabia on a civilian nuclear program. John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said that any absence of IAEA standard protocols — […]

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