Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Global News about Russia’s continued nuclear threats. Putin may also be seeking to deter Ukraine from striking within Russia because it would puncture the “illusion of safety” he has created for the Russian people, said John Erath, a senior director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington. […]
US vs China, Israel vs Iran, India vs Pakistan: Asia plays with fire as nuclear war safety net frays
Research Analyst Shawn Rostker spoke with South China Morning Post about nuclear arsenal buildup across the world. However, both India and Pakistan are still “likely a few years away” from being able to deploy nuclear-armed submarines, according to Shawn Rostker, a research analyst at the Washington-based Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “It will likely take […]
NATO’s Most Game-Changing Weapons
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 […]
Op-ed: Planned expansion of Savannah River Site nuclear weapons facility needs environmental commitment
Program Coordinator Emma Sandifer wrote an op-ed in Georgia Recorder on the need for greater environmental oversight on the planned expansion of the Savannah River Site. A nuclear weapons facility along the Georgia-South Carolina border is about to get a lot busier — but before billions of our tax dollars get spent, we need to ask […]
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 […]
