Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Newsweek about changing military capabilities within NATO. “There’s absolutely no doubt” that the U.S. is NATO’s most important partner because of its military capabilities, John Erath, the senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told Newsweek. He described NATO’s military growth as a “good news-bad […]
Thinking Evolves: On Dune Part Two and Nuclear Weapons
By John Erath *SPOILERS BELOW* If the way we think about nuclear weapons has changed over time, should the way we approach arms control do so as well? This thought occurred to me as I drove home recently after seeing Dune Part 2, Denis Villeneuve’s conclusion of his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel. Nuclear weapons […]
India’s Agni-5 missile: Deterrence against China or is New Delhi thinking something bigger?
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with India Weekly about the first test of the Agni-5 missile and its implications for Asian regional politics. John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington DC, USA, believes that diplomacy is still the best option available. He told India Weekly that Beijing pretends not […]
Op-ed: From Crossbows to Nuclear Weapons: Arms Control in an Imperfect World
Senior Policy Director John Erath wrote an op-ed in Geopolitical Monitor about arms control throughout history. Around 1096, the Pope issued a decree banning crossbows as murderous and un-Christian weapons. Although a later Pope clarified that it was still allowable to kill heathens with crossbows, all Christian nations were supposed to refrain from the use of such […]
Reports of Russia building nuclear space weapons have alarmed officials, but security experts aren’t panicked — yet
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Business Insider about potential Russian space weaponry. However, Russia has been developing anti-satellite weapons for years, John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told BI. “They’ve tested one, they’ve destroyed one of their own satellites with them, and they’ve proven that they can do this,” […]
