By Julia Cooper, Fall 2025 Policy Intern Vague threats of the use of nuclear weapons, especially tactical ones, have been a critical tool of Russia’s rhetoric around its invasion of Ukraine. Russian drills practicing the use of these weapons have been numerous since the invasion and were further exemplified last month with the Zapad-2025 military […]
One Person’s Pre-Watch Guide to ‘A House of Dynamite’
By Farah Sonde Just in time for Halloween, Netflix is dropping a new nuclear thriller that fits the “spooky season” mantra. A House of Dynamite, the new film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, will hit select theaters October 10 and will stream on Netflix starting October 24. The film’s new trailer delivers multiple hints about what’s […]
Intangible Threats: How Uncontrolled Knowledge Fuels Proliferation
by Mathew Montiel* How do we govern knowledge? Can we control knowledge? If I gave you blueprints for an LGM-35 Sentinel Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, could you build it? Thankfully, most of us could not. But it’s not because we can’t figure it out; it’s because there are still significant gaps between expertise, infrastructure and materials […]
Hope is Not a Strategy
By John Erath Regular readers of this blog will be aware of our Next Up in Arms Control series, commonly referred to as NUAC, in which we give new authors an opportunity to share their thoughts and ideas on how to mitigate nuclear threats and make the world safer. One of the best parts of […]
Pentagon’s War on Journalism Is One More Way to Hide Costs, Bad Programs and Realities of Conflict
By Anna Schumann The Pentagon is not generally considered a fount of free information, sometimes for good reasons. U.S. national security requires top secrets to be held closely by people who have been thoroughly vetted and cleared, lest officials accidentally share war plans with journalists in real time, for example. So should it be alarming […]
