By Connor Murray and Emma Sandifer In mid-October, many members of the Center’s team took our mission of educating decision makers on the road. This time, instead of Members of Congress and their staff, we engaged an even more consequential group: the people they work for. Together with a team of experts from other organizations, […]
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Introducing: Neighbors Against Nukes
By Emma Sandifer Do you ever wonder how nuclear weapons impact your own community? I did, so I spent one year mapping the footprint of nuclear weapons across our neighborhoods, and I was left surprised…and encouraged. In the spring of last year, I was named one of Ploughshares Foundation and Horizon 2045’s Nuclear Futures Fellows. […]
25 Years Since September 11: Staff Stories: Emma Sandifer, 3, Atlanta, Georgia
On September 11, 2001, I was three years old, in a kindergarten in Atlanta, Georgia. The school closed at lunchtime with many of the children’s parents being evacuated employees from the nearby Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My family went home and watched the news like many others. But I don’t remember any of this. I don’t remember […]
How ‘The Brink of War’ Calls Us to Action
by Emma Sandifer In 1986, with the Cold War winding down and the Soviet Union on its last legs, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in a tiny house on the coast of Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide whether there would be peace or war in the world. The new movie, […]
Trump’s Claim About the Obama Nuclear Deal and Iran’s Nuclear Development
Program Coordinator Emma Sandifer was quoted by FactCheck.org on President Trump’s claims about Iran’s nuclear program. As we’ve explained, it would take more time to actually develop a nuclear weapon. “After this point, once you have the weapons-grade uranium, Iran would then need to manufacture the rest of the weapon. This process would likely take much longer, perhaps […]
