Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Handelsblatt, a German language publication, on the G7 summit in Hiroshima. The article is in German. Read more
Biden is going to Hiroshima at a moment when nuclear tensions are on the rise
Susan Burk, who is on the board for the Center, spoke with NPR about Russian nuclear threats. “The continued nuclear bluster has shocked nuclear experts. “Even in the coldest days of the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviets always … continued to carry on a very substantive dialogue on nonproliferation issues,” said Susan Burk. […]
Japan-Korea Relations Show That Cultural Dialogue is Essential to Security
By Matthew Teasdale Bringing a welcome thaw to an often frosty relationship, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol discussed new economic and security policies in Seoul in early May 2023. President Yoon’s previous visit to Tokyo in March was the first summit between South Korea and Japan in more […]
Gatekeeping nuclear-powered submarines: What will the precedent be?
By Sophia Macartney Two non-nuclear weapon states are acquiring nuclear-powered submarines. The Australia-UK-US (AUKUS) alliance is providing Australia with nuclear-powered submarines by the 2040s, and Brazil has been seeking nuclear-powered submarines since the 1980s. Pessimists say AUKUS is a proliferation risk in contradiction of the spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and could set […]
Biden Must Deliver on Disarmament at the G7 Summit in Hiroshima
Executive Director John Tierney wrote an op-ed in Just Security with Daryl Kimball from the Arms Control Association about the G7 summit in Hiroshima. “On the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, during the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, Joe Biden pledged to “restore American leadership on arms control and nonproliferation…and work to bring us closer […]