By Anna Schumann, Communications Director It’s been a year of ups and downs in nuclear arms control, and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has seen all of it. Take a look at our top 15 favorite op-eds, news articles, blog posts, podcasts and more from 2019. Here’s a timeless piece from Castleman Fellow […]
Go Back to School: Five Things Everyone Should Know About Nuclear Weapons
By Anna Schumann It’s back-to-school season, and while it may be the kids who are going to class, adults nationwide will also need to brush up on their spelling, long division and science fair skills. While everyone loves a good baking soda volcano, there are potential real-life explosions that we should all be worried about. […]
Recap: Managing Global Nuclear Threats
By Anna Schumann On July 24, the Center held its annual conference: Managing Global Nuclear Threats, widely attended and streamed online by Congressional staffers, nuclear policy experts and other interested parties. Board member Spencer Boyer began by welcoming the audience and setting the stage for what the upcoming conversations would hold. The first panel, moderated by […]
A Will to Create a Better World
By Anna Schumann I walked into the room at the top of the stairs and saw a seemingly endless stream of bodies lying there, flat on the ground, as the peaceful sounds of leaves and insects filled one ear, and the aggressive sounds of construction filled the other. It was disruptive to hear them both […]
Is Doc Brown a Nuclear Terrorist?
By Anna Schumann Masked beneath the humor and heart that made the 1985 movie, Back to the Future, such a classic, is the very real issue of nuclear security and nuclear terrorism. The movie begins with a newscast in the background: “In other news, officials at The Pacific Nuclear Research Facility have denied the rumor […]
