By Emma Sandifer This month, the world is looking into the past to commemorate the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the same time, it is mired in the present, evaluating the threats posed by nuclear threat exchanges between the United States and Russia. It is easy to work in […]
Reflections On My Summer Internship: Jack Higgins
By Jack Higgins, Policy Intern, Summer 2025 August 6 will mark 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing roughly 100,000 people and levelling the city. One of the very first things I did after arriving at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation was read John Hersey’s famous […]
Reflections On My Summer Internship: Abby Wagner
By Abby Wagner, Policy Intern, Summer 2025 At some point during my internship at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, I developed a mild obsession with Geoguessr — an office-favorite game that drops you at a random location in the world and challenges you to use Google Street View to figure out where you […]
AI Should Help Nuclear Decision-Makers but Not Make Decisions
By Jack Higgins, Policy Intern, Summer 2025 The United States plans to spend $1.7 trillion to modernize its nuclear forces over the next 30 years with artificial intelligence set to play a major role in the effort, but will it be a worthwhile investment? While AI has the potential to improve safety-critical early warning and […]
3 Lessons From Switzerland’s Weak Punishment of Nuclear Smugglers
By Abby Wagner, Policy Intern, Summer 2025 Nearly 20 years ago, Switzerland let a family of nuclear smugglers off the hook. That choice revealed how a narrow concept of neutrality, weak export laws and greed can fuel nuclear proliferation and threaten global security. After recent Israeli and American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, there has […]
