UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO ESCALATE SITUATION WITH IRAN On Saturday, September 19 at 8 p.m. EST, the United States declared a successful snapback of all UN Security Council resolutions on Iran and two days later threatened to sanction any country that deviated from its world view. This exceptional claim comes in anticipation of the scheduled expiration of […]
Front and Center: August 17, 2020
WORLD HONORS 75TH ANNIVERSARIES OF U.S. BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI On August 6 and 9, the world came together to acknowledge the victims and survivors of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 75 years after two atomic bombs killed an estimated 200,000 people. The Center was proud to join a coalition of more […]
Front and Center: June 20, 2020
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 […]
Front and Center: May 23, 2020
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 […]
Front and Center: April 26, 2020
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 […]
