President Trump’s comments – yet again – implying the need for a new nuclear build-up and denouncing a pivotal arms control agreement between the United States and Russia upheave decades of bipartisan policy in Washington and place the American people at risk. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hazel Correa hcorrea@armscontrolcenter.org 202.546.0795 x2115 Washington, DC – According to […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in Western Journalism
Read the full piece in Western Journalism. “Every world leader on Earth except for President Trump knows that the United States already has the ‘top of the pack’ nuclear arsenal,” said John Tierney, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “No U.S. military leader would trade our nuclear weapons for the Russian […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in the Big News Network
Read the full article in The Big News Network. The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation also issued a statement “correcting Trump’s alternative facts.” “President Trump’s assertions about nuclear weapons policy conveniently ignore the facts,” former Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), the executive director of the center, said in a statement. “Every world leader on Earth […]
Center NAB Members Amb. Thomas Graham Jr. and Sen. Byron Dorgan Op-Ed in The Hill
Read the full op-ed in The Hill. Since the end of the Cold War, verifiable nuclear arms reductions have been a bipartisan priority. Both Democratic and Republican administrations worked to reduce the number of Russian nuclear weapons that could be pointed at the United States and vice versa. Unfortunately, this bipartisan consensus has been dangerously […]
Senior Fellow John Isaacs in The Medium
Read Senior Fellow John Isaacs’ Op-Ed in The Medium. Former ExxonMobil executive Rex Tillerson, recently approved to be the United States Secretary of State, remains a controversial choice because of previous positions on Russia and climate change. But interestingly, Secretary Tillerson’s positions on crucial nuclear weapons issues as expressed at his confirmation hearing and responses to […]