LINK BETWEEN NUCLEAR TESTING AND NEW START AGREEMENT News broke last month that in a meeting, senior national security officials discussed conducting an explosive nuclear test at a site in Nevada for the first time since 1992. The test would reportedly be a political move to persuade China to join arms control negotiations with the United […]

REPORTS: TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DISCUSSED CONDUCTING EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR TESTS News broke Friday night in The Washington Post that in a meeting last week, senior national security officials discussed conducting an explosive nuclear test for the first time since 1992. The test would reportedly be a political move to persuade China to join arms control negotiations with the United […]

NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE AGE OF PANDEMICS Greg Koblentz, a member of the Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security, co-wrote in Defense One that the government hasn’t treated pandemic threats with the same sense of urgency and focus that it has spent on great power competition with Russia and China. Also important, as Policy Intern James Loftis […]

A NOTE FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOHN TIERNEY Friend, I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well and finding comfort in these uncertain times. At the Center, we are all working from our respective homes as much as possible, for which we are incredibly thankful. We know that with obvious public health and […]

TRUMP BUDGET REQUESTS MASSIVE INCREASE TO NUCLEAR SPENDING If it was not clear already, the Trump administration’s enormous new $740 billion defense budget request makes it crystal clear — they are fully committed to increasing the role of nuclear weapons in our national security policy. While funding for key conventional programs decreases under the request, the National […]