CONTACT: Anna Schumann Communications Director aschumann@armscontrolcenter.org (JANUARY 24—WASHINGTON) In response to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ annual setting of its symbolic Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight today, the Council for a Livable World and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation issue the following statement on behalf of Executive Director and […]
Front and Center: January 22, 2023
RUSSIA, UKRAINE DISPUTE CONTROLLED TERRITORY Russia announced that it controls the small salt-mining town of Soledar, but Ukrainian officials deny this conquest. The town is symbolically important to both sides of the war as it would be the first Russian success after months of attrition on the central Donbas front. British intelligence officials have contested Russian claims and countered […]
Putin’s Military Strategy Ignores Key Principles of War: Ukraine Adviser
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Newsweek about Putin’s military strategy. Any country will play to its perceived strengths in such planning, said John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. He told Newsweek that U.S. and Russian military ideology differs in that regard, as the U.S. emphasizes advanced technology and […]
New worldwide threats prompt Pentagon to overhaul chem-bio defenses
Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group of Chemical and Biological Threats, spoke with Politico about the Department of Defense change in approach to biological threats. “Gregory Koblentz, the director of the Biodefense Graduate Program at George Mason University, said the decision by the administration to look more holistically at chemical and biological threats is […]
Protecting Against Disaster – The Need for a Security Assurance at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
By Matthew Teasdale As the war in Ukraine rages on, the growing desperation of Russian forces raises dangerous possibilities for nuclear escalation. Russian forces are already launching missile strikes near these facilities, and their occupation increases the likelihood of miscalculation and nuclear disaster. Writing in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Middlebury Institute of International […]
