Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Truthout about the dangers of nuclear weapons and arms racing in 2024. Despite this, John Erath, senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, says “the possibility of nuclear war is very small,” but hastened to add that the catastrophic dangers and potential consequences of even “limited use” […]
5 Potential Points for Bipartisanship on Nuclear Issues in 2024
By John Erath That 2024 is an election year in the United States will come as no more of a surprise than the usual partisan bickering and the inevitable portrayals of the other side as dangerous to national security. As someone who served presidents of both parties for three decades, I want to offer an […]
No Good Reason for Nuclear Testing, Part 2
By John Erath On October 11, I published some reactions to the Russian announcement revoking signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). That post focused on Russia and why its leadership chose to take this step and made the case for renewed U.S. administration efforts to ratify CTBT. In this post, I want to look […]
The nucleus: Nevada plays crucial role in U.S. nuclear programs
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Las Vegas Review-Journal about the role of Nevada in the U.S. nuclear arsenal and increasing nuclear tension surrounding possible testing efforts in Russia. John Erath, senior policy director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Russia’s decision is a strategy to push Western countries’ influence out […]
The China Dilemma
By John Erath Earlier this year, for the first time since the Cold War, it was announced that the total number of nuclear weapons in the world rose in 2022. Largely, the reason for the increase was China’s rapid construction of additional weapons. Although the United States and Russia are undergoing modernizations of their nuclear […]
