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 […]
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Assessing Trump’s Claims on Iran’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities
Program Coordinator Emma Sandifer was quoted by FactCheck.org on President Trump’s claims about Iran’s nuclear program. “In the absence of IAEA monitoring, accurate information is scant,” Emma Sandifer, program coordinator at the nonpartisan Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told us in an email, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA hasn’t been able […]
How Looking Into the Future Helps Reevaluate the Present
By Emma Sandifer This month, the world is looking into the past to commemorate the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the same time, it is mired in the present, evaluating the threats posed by nuclear threat exchanges between the United States and Russia. It is easy to work in […]
Hiroshima: Would a woman have dropped the atomic bomb?
Policy Coordinator Emma Sandifer was interviewed by Artículo14 about the role of women in creating nuclear weapons policies. The article is originally in Spanish. It’s been 80 years since the first atomic bomb was dropped, one of the darkest passages in human history that took place in Hiroshima , and at Article 14 we ask ourselves whether things […]
Nuclear Weapons Issues are Women’s Issues
By Emma Sandifer The blast from a nuclear weapon does not discriminate. The radioactive fallout from that blast, however, is a different story. Women around the world sit in the dangerous position of being overrepresented among victims of cancer and death due to nuclear fallout yet vastly underrepresented among those who make the life and […]
