G7 IN HIROSHIMA WAS OPPORTUNITY FOR BIDEN TO LEAD ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT President Joe Biden joined world leaders in Hiroshima for the G7 Summit this month, providing ample opportunities for the leaders to acknowledge the harms nuclear weapons cause and commit to preventing future nuclear risks. In an op-ed, in the press and through letters to the White […]
Front and Center: April 24, 2023
RUSSIA THREATENS TO STATION TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN BELARUS The Kremlin issued yet another nuclear threat last month by announcing it plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. This follows the transfer of deployment vehicles including Iskander missile systems. The strategic value of such a move is questionable though. One senior administration official reportedly said that […]
Front and Center: February 26, 2023
ONE YEAR INTO UKRAINE INVASION, RUSSIA GETS MORE DESPERATE Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to have policy implications beyond the destruction and suffering being caused in the conflict, which hit the one-year mark on Friday. Western leaders have pledged more aid to Ukraine, but a new Russian offensive is also underway. Senior Policy Director John […]
Front and Center: January 22, 2023
RUSSIA, UKRAINE DISPUTE CONTROLLED TERRITORY Russia announced that it controls the small salt-mining town of Soledar, but Ukrainian officials deny this conquest. The town is symbolically important to both sides of the war as it would be the first Russian success after months of attrition on the central Donbas front. British intelligence officials have contested Russian claims and countered […]
Front and Center: December 18, 2022
RUSSIA CONTINUES NUCLEAR THREATS, POSTPONES U.S. TALKS Russian president Vladimir Putin continues to demonstrate why nuclear weapons in his hands, or anyone’s, are a danger to the world. No one has dropped a nuclear bomb on another country since 1945, but Putin can’t resist implied or direct threats to use nuclear weapons in his failing […]