Senior Policy Director John Erath was a guest on the Voice of Islam’s Drive Time radio show. His segment starts at the 8-minute mark. He discusses everything from the Geneva conference on disarmament, NATO expansion and Russia’s nuclear threats against Ukraine. Voice Of Islam · Drive Time Show Podcast 29-07-2022 | ‘Nuclear Weapons’ and ‘Global […]
When the Absurd Becomes Too Real
By John Erath Despite the name, this blog is about more than nuclear weapons. Today, it is time to discuss a different hazard: biological weapons. Sadly, bio weapons are almost as old as war itself. Ancient histories recount cases where diseased animals were used to introduce pathogens into besieged cities. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
Summary: Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 7900)
Summary as passed by the House of Representatives. Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY23 Request FY23 requested levels come from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book Numbers may not add due to rounding Total National Defense Discretionary Spending Authorization (050) *Does […]
Nuclear Inheritance Part 1: Kazakhstan and Nuclear Testing
What happens when a new country is born with nuclear weapons already within its borders? What happens when the legacy of nuclear testing takes place almost entirely within communities of color? And how do the answers to these questions get knit together to form a national identity that refuses nuclear weapons, even in a world […]
The Best Kind of Problem
By John Erath This is an unusual entry for this blog. Most of our recent content has been on such themes as the dangers of missile proliferation, the consequences of Russian aggression in Ukraine, or North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric. For this entry, however, we will be setting aside, at least for now, our musing on the serious threats we […]