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OUR SISTER ORGANIZATION IS 60! WATCH AND LISTEN TO OUR FOUNDER Manhattan Project nuclear physicist Leo Szilard met with a group of fellow scientists June 2, 1962, to form the Council for a Livable World, the Center’s sister organization, after months of touting this idea on a speaking tour of college campuses nationwide. In his speech, “Are We On the Road to War?” he describes his thought process for creating the Council after being asked what non-scientists could do to push back against the arms race. The Center formed as its own entity in 1980. Watch Szilard and fellow Manhattan Project scientists recreate the moments leading up to the dawn of the nuclear age in this 1946 Oscar-nominated short film, “Atomic Power.” Listen to Szilard humorously and cleverly answer questions from Harvard students after delivering his “Are We On the Road to War?” speech there in 1961. (You must click “Hear it now in RealAudio” and download it.)
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IRAN SITUATION ESCALATES; CHANCES OF DEAL NARROWING Just last week, Iran removed “basically all” of the extra monitoring equipment installed under the 2015 nuclear deal going beyond Iran’s core obligations to the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This most recent escalation is in retaliation for the U.S.- and European-led censure of Iran at the IAEA’s Board of Governors meeting, the highest nuclear governing body, due to its failure to cooperate with the agency’s safeguards investigation into its pre-2003 nuclear weapons program. Now, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi suspects that in just 3-4 weeks’ time, the IAEA may no longer be able to recover knowledge of the totality of Iran’s nuclear activities even if there is a diplomatic breakthrough. Sometimes this sort of pressure produces diplomatic breakthroughs, but there are not too many positive signals right now. The Center put out a statement after Iran’s actions, calling them “predictable” and saying they reinforce the need for the Iran nuclear deal.
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WE’RE HIRING: DO YOU KNOW A GOOD FIT? The Center is hiring for three full-time, early-career positions: Research Analyst, Communications Associate and Staff Accountant. If you or someone you know is looking for an exciting non-profit job, check out the listings and apply today.
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A WORLD WITHOUT ARMS CONTROL? Senior Policy Director John Erath weighs Vladimir Putin’s dangerous nuclear gamble in his latest opinion piece in The National Interest, arguing that Putin’s most dangerous decision has not been to invade Ukraine nor to continue losing his own soldiers in an unwinnable war, but the “increasing tendency to attribute the failures of the Russian military to foreign assistance provided to Ukraine and employ threats of nuclear force to discourage such aid.” Erath reflects on the future of arms control in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the imminent expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in his latest blog post: “Our goal should be to minimize the danger of nuclear weapons, not simply to have treaties, and there are a number of possible lines of effort that can and should be pursued, pending the revival of a big-ticket treaty process.”
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WHAT ELSE Time to reset the narrative on missile proliferation? by Research Analyst Samuel M. Hickey Biden’s mounting nuclear threats from North Korea, Iran, featuring Senior Policy Director John Erath
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