By Emma Sandifer Do you ever wonder how nuclear weapons impact your own community? I did, so I spent one year mapping the footprint of nuclear weapons across our neighborhoods, and I was left surprised…and encouraged. In the spring of last year, I was named one of Ploughshares Foundation and Horizon 2045’s Nuclear Futures Fellows. […]
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Time To Fund the OPCW
By John Erath Since 1993, chemical weapons have killed thousands, with many times more affected, often suffering for years. This despite the Chemical Weapons Convention ban on such activity and a general view that such weapons have little military utility and too high a risk of harm to civilians. During that time, the Organization for […]
2026 Annual Conference: $1 Trillion and Counting: The Pentagon Budget Squeezing Our Real Security
By Center Staff The Center hosted its annual conference September 15 in Washington and online, with many people joining the livestream and participating in the robust discussions. Our lineup of esteemed speakers and panelists sought to answer one critical question: How should Pentagon spending, including for nuclear weapons, best be structured to provide actual security? […]
25 Years Since September 11: Staff Stories: Rep. John Tierney, 49, Washington, D.C.
I was in the Capitol for some reason. I’m not sure if it was a vote or a meeting, and I returned to my office in the Cannon building, and as I came in my office manager came rushing over and said, “We’d better turn the TV on. A plane just went into the twin […]
25 Years Since September 11: Staff Stories: Emma Sandifer, 3, Atlanta, Georgia
On September 11, 2001, I was three years old, in a kindergarten in Atlanta, Georgia. The school closed at lunchtime with many of the children’s parents being evacuated employees from the nearby Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My family went home and watched the news like many others. But I don’t remember any of this. I don’t remember […]
