REMINDER: JOIN US VIRTUALLY FOR OUR ANNUAL CONFERENCE OCTOBER 7 The Center’s annual conference is just more than one week away and we’d love for you to attend virtually from the remote location of your choice! Join us October 7 from 4:30-7 p.m. eastern as our esteemed slate of speakers and panelists seek to answer one critical […]
Front and Center
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation publishes a monthly newsletter, Front and Center, including an update on nuclear arms control, national security, and nuclear weapons policy. You will also receive other national security updates occasionally, no more than once per week.
Front and Center: August 17, 2025
TRUMP AND PUTIN REACH NO DEAL AT SUMMIT ABOUT UKRAINE, MISS OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS NUCLEAR RISK REDUCTION President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday afternoon in Alaska, purportedly to meet about ending the war caused by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Given that Ukrainian leadership was not in the room, it was […]
Front and Center: June 30, 2025
EVEN AS ISRAELI-IRANIAN TENSIONS ARE EASED FOR NOW, THE UNITED STATES MUST ADDRESS WAR POWERS It has been a long few days fraught with uncertainty about what might happen between Israel, Iran and the United States. This conflict seems to have cooled for now with the announcement of a ceasefire, but what matters now is what happens […]
Front and Center: April 19, 2025
UKRAINE: HOW NOT TO END THE WAR Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg, and top diplomats from the United Kingdom, Germany and Ukraine. These joint talks between the United States, Ukraine and Europe were the first of their kind involving the Trump administration, […]
Front and Center: March 23, 2025
UNCERTAIN U.S. SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE RENEWS DETERRENCE DEBATE IN EUROPE On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion at the end of February, Senior Policy Director John Erath wrote a post in the Center’s Nukes of Hazard blog explaining why forcing a ceasefire goes against U.S. national interests and assumes Ukraine is in a much weaker position than it actually is. […]
