Bury the Bomb Before It Buries Us By Ralph Vartabedian After those earlier plans were criticized, the Nuclear Weapons Council, a high-level board of officials from the Energy and Defense departments, proposed a 25-year plan to mix old and newly manufactured parts from the seven existing weapons designs into five new packages at a cost […]
Article on Iran Nuclear Negotiations by Ed Levine Published in Al-Monitor
Can Iran Transparency Overcome Covert Nuclear Past? By Edward P. Levine A recurrent issue regarding Iran’s nuclear programs is how to address its history of covert nuclear activities, including efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Earlier this month, 354 members of US Congress sent Secretary of State John Kerry a letter warning that “Iran’s willingness to […]
Business Insider Publishes Post by Sarah Tully on North Korea’s Nuclear Program
For over a year, the U.S. has been all eyes on Iran, but is this distracting us from states that already have nuclear weapons—such as the ever-unpredictable North Korea? On the Nukes of Hazard blog, Sarah Tully suggests that the DPRK’s nuclear program is “flying under the radar” while the U.S. spends its days engaging […]
Letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee Members
Angela Canterbury, Executive Director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, signed onto a letter urging congressional Armed Service Committees to consider changes to nuclear-weapons related provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act. Sep 30, 2014 Dear House and Senate Armed Services Committee Members: We are writing to make the following recommendations on provisions […]
Business Insider Publishes Post by Angela Canterbury and Sarah Tully on Obama’s Nuclear Weapons Reductions
Obama’s Mixed Bag on Nuclear Weapons By Angela Canterbury and Sarah Tully President Obama has long talked the talk of reducing the dangers of nuclear weapons, but the administration has been slow to walk the walk in terms of nuclear weapons reductions in recent years. A recent study by Federation of American Scientists pointed out […]