By Casey Kitchens I had the pleasure of attending the Fourth Annual Betty Lou Hummel Memorial Lecture at Johns Hopkins SAIS last month. The speaker, a former professor of mine, was U.S. Ambassador Mary Ann Peters. The title of her lecture: Why America Matters. I’d known from personal experience that Ambassador Peters feels strongly about […]
2022 Nuclear Posture Review
On October 27, 2022, the Biden administration released the unclassified version of its 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The document states that nuclear weapons provide a unique deterrent that no other element of U.S. military power can replace and that a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent undergirds all U.S. national defense priorities. The NPR […]
‘SOME STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION:’ BIDEN ADMINISTRATION NUCLEAR POSTURE REVIEW CUTS SOME UNNECESSARY PROGRAMS, ALLOWS SOME COLD WAR STRATEGIES TO CONTINUE
CONTACT: Anna Schumann Communications Director aschumann@armscontrolcenter.org (OCTOBER 27—WASHINGTON) Upon the release of the Biden administration’s long-awaited unclassified Nuclear Posture Review, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation releases the following statement by Executive Director and former Congressman John Tierney on behalf of the organization: “While we are pleased that the Biden administration’s Nuclear […]
Nuclear Inheritance Part 1: Kazakhstan and Nuclear Testing
What happens when a new country is born with nuclear weapons already within its borders? What happens when the legacy of nuclear testing takes place almost entirely within communities of color? And how do the answers to these questions get knit together to form a national identity that refuses nuclear weapons, even in a world […]
Biden left with few options on Iran as nuclear talks stall
Research Analyst Samuel Hickey spoke to ABC News about the Biden administration’s options as the window for a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s advancing nuclear program continues to close. The U.S. also has little room to maneuver, says Sam Hickey, an analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “There are a lot of political […]
