Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with POLITICO about the dangers of Russian occupation of a nuclear plant in Ukraine. “The idea of a nuclear accident is scary — it will get people’s attention — so it is a ready-made tool for this purpose” said John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms […]
Russia ratchets up the danger at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Grid about potential dangers at a nuclear plant in Ukraine. There are at least two main threats to this orchestration at Zaporizhzhia, said John Erath, senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. One is of a disaster caused by a cooling failure at the […]
RevCon: Crying ‘Wolf’ and What Success Will Look Like
By John Erath One of the major advantages of working at the Center is the way that my colleagues can make my job easy. I had been thinking of writing a post for this blog on the opening of the NPT Review Conference (RevCon) in New York this week, but was having trouble coming up […]
Drive Time: Nuclear Weapons and Global Economy
Senior Policy Director John Erath was a guest on the Voice of Islam’s Drive Time radio show. His segment starts at the 8-minute mark. He discusses everything from the Geneva conference on disarmament, NATO expansion and Russia’s nuclear threats against Ukraine. Voice Of Islam · Drive Time Show Podcast 29-07-2022 | ‘Nuclear Weapons’ and ‘Global […]
When the Absurd Becomes Too Real
By John Erath Despite the name, this blog is about more than nuclear weapons. Today, it is time to discuss a different hazard: biological weapons. Sadly, bio weapons are almost as old as war itself. Ancient histories recount cases where diseased animals were used to introduce pathogens into besieged cities. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
