RUSSIAN RETREAT AND A TRAGEDY IN POLAND Russian troops withdrew from the city of Kherson and territory along the Dnipro River, demonstrating that they could not withstand the strong defenses put up by Ukrainian forces. Senior Policy Director John Erath argues in a new op-ed in The National Interest that Russia’s failed invasion is proof that nuclear weapons […]

60TH ANNIVERSARY OF CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS Today marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a 13-day nuclear standoff between the United States and Soviet Union. While we wish the tensions felt during that crisis were now distant history, unfortunately, that is not the case. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dangerous nuclear […]

UKRAINE LIBERATES KHARKIV REGION; SPECTER OF NUCLEAR WAR RISES On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walked through the streets of Izyum in the country’s Kharkiv region, which was liberated from Russian forces as part of Ukraine’s counter-offensive. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have recovered more than 3,000 square kilometers of territory during September, in what many […]

HOUSE CONSIDERS VARIOUS NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUESThis past week has brought a lot of focus to key national security issues in Congress. The House considered the annual Defense Authorization bill, a vehicle for votes on many defense, foreign policy and other national security issues. The House Armed Services Committee had already voted to add $37 billion […]

OUR SISTER ORGANIZATION IS 60! WATCH AND LISTEN TO OUR FOUNDER Manhattan Project nuclear physicist Leo Szilard met with a group of fellow scientists June 2, 1962, to form the Council for a Livable World, the Center’s sister organization, after months of touting this idea on a speaking tour of college campuses nationwide. In his […]