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 […]
Axios Future of Defense
Research Analyst Connor Murray spoke with Axios about changing political trends and increased military spending in Europe. Europe is not a monolith; public sentiment in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands is not uniform. “For some of these leaders, they have a very fraught domestic political situation,” Connor Murray, a research analyst at the Center for Arms Control […]
