By Matthew Teasdale In response to the Russian decision to suspend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the Biden administration last month publicly released American nuclear data. President Vladimir Putin previously halted his country’s compliance and data transfers to coerce Washington into stopping aid shipments to Ukraine. These statistics include information on the […]
Thwarting nuclear terrorism through data-sharing
By Sergey Shkolnikov* The current state of international relations is flush with concerns about democratic institutions floundering and “populist, nationalist and xenophobic strands of backlash politics” extending to the issues of arms control and nuclear non-proliferation. Recent nuclear negotiations have stalled, and the venerated Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) is perceived as weaker than ever. These […]
A book, nuclear weapons, means and ends
By John Erath One of the benefits of working at the Center is the opportunity to collaborate with some of the top experts in the field, people who bring knowledge, insight and a variety of different viewpoints to discussions of international security. Earlier this year, I was privileged to chair a panel including one such […]
Front and Center: May 28, 2023
G7 IN HIROSHIMA WAS OPPORTUNITY FOR BIDEN TO LEAD ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT President Joe Biden joined world leaders in Hiroshima for the G7 Summit this month, providing ample opportunities for the leaders to acknowledge the harms nuclear weapons cause and commit to preventing future nuclear risks. In an op-ed, in the press and through letters to the White […]
Wie Japan das G7-Treffen für die nukleare Abrüstung nutzen will
Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Handelsblatt, a German language publication, on the G7 summit in Hiroshima. The article is in German. Read more