LONGTIME ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVIST DANIEL ELLSBERG HAS DIED Daniel Ellsberg, the man best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, died Friday. Ellsberg was a longtime anti-war and anti-nuclear weapons activist who when he announced his decision to decline chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer in March pledged to spend the time he had left speaking […]
The end of the cornerstone of biosecurity preparedness
By Sophy Macartney The toll of COVID-19 on the United States revealed a lack of preparedness and vulnerability to biological threats and the mass destruction they could create. Biological threats should be at the forefront of national and health security priorities in response to pandemics like COVID-19 as well as the rising chances of biological […]
U.S. Release of Nuclear Data Promotes New START Transparency Amid Nuclear Tension
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 […]
