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John Tierney

April 15, 2026

Episode 62 with Former Rep. John Tierney

Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Representative Mark Pocan on his podcast With Liberty and Justice for Some about President Trump’s nuclear threats on Iran and increases in defense funding for this year’s President’s Budget Request.

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November 19, 2025

Boomtown: How Futuristic Weapons Could Power Albuquerque

Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Undark about directed energy research. Academic researchers like Schamiloglu, though, are working on solving those problems. And according to Harrison and Richardson, the need for that kind of basic research is keeping directed energy funding stable. That’s not true of funding for other fields of science. “You look to where […]

Posted in: Center in the News, Emerging Technology, John Tierney, People, Press Room

October 29, 2025

How accurate is A House of Dynamite? Experts sort fact from fiction

Executive Director John Tierney spoke with The Times about “A House of Dynamite” and missile defense. John Tierney, the executive director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and a former nine-term congressman from Massachusetts, also praised the film’s accuracy. “It’s close enough that people should be concerned,” he said. “This has been a scam […]

Posted in: A House of Dynamite, Center in the News, John Tierney, Missile Defense, People, Press & In the News on Missile Defense, Press Room, United States

August 6, 2025

80 Years After the Bomb, How Much Longer Will Our Luck Last?

Executive Director John Tierney spoke with The Diplomat about the need for renewed arms control efforts. According to John Tierney, executive director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, today there is a tremendous lack of political leadership in pursuing arms control.  He said it’s important to insist on a return to arms control in the […]

Posted in: Center in the News, John Tierney, Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Weapons Free Zones, People, Press & In the News on Non-Proliferation, Press Room, Treaties

August 4, 2025

Trump escalates nuclear tensions as Russia deadline nears

Executive Director John Tierney spoke with The Hill about President Donald Trump’s announcement to move nuclear submarines closer to Russia. “Does this mean that all of a sudden we should all be going to the cellar and locking ourselves in? No,” said former Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), who is the executive director of the Center […]

Posted in: Center in the News, John Tierney, People, Press & In the News on Russia, Press Room, Russia, United States

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