By Connor Murray and Emma Sandifer In mid-October, many members of the Center’s team took our mission of educating decision makers on the road. This time, instead of Members of Congress and their staff, we engaged an even more consequential group: the people they work for. Together with a team of experts from other organizations, […]
Nukes of Hazard blog
You can destroy a facility. What about knowledge?
By Rana Agahi When a country gives up or loses a nuclear weapons program, what actually disappears? Unlike a warhead, laboratory or centrifuge, knowledge cannot simply be dismantled. Nuclear programs depend not only on machines and materials, but also on the tacit knowledge scientists gain through experience and cannot always pass on through instructions alone. […]
Introducing: Neighbors Against Nukes
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. […]
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? […]
