Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security, co-authored an article in Think Global Health on using “minilateral” strategies for strengthening global biorisk management. Opened for signature in 1972, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) has proven to be remarkably durable. With its deliberately broad scope, the BWC […]
The U.S. Defense Budget and Russia’s War on Ukraine
Policy Analyst Monica Montgomery wrote the November cover story for Arms Control Today about Congress using the war in Ukraine to falsely justify increased defense spending. The Russian war on Ukraine has led to significant increases in U.S. defense spending this year in terms of direct war-related expenditures and the Pentagon’s base budget. Even before […]
Op-ed: Russia’s Disastrous Invasion Proves Nukes Are Useless
Senior Policy Director John Erath wrote an op-ed for The National Interest arguing that Russia’s myriad failures in its invasion of Ukraine clearly demonstrate nuclear weapons’ lack of utility. Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu’s November 9 announcement that Russian troops would evacuate the city of Kherson and the right bank of the Dnipro River confirmed […]
Black Lives Matter
At the Center and Council, we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and believe that all Americans must work to dismantle and destroy structural racism in our society. We support the peaceful protests happening throughout the country and denounce the Trump administration’s efforts to impede the Constitutional right to assemble. We stand with journalists who are working incessantly to shine light […]
National Advisory Board Member General Robert Gard’s Letter to the Washington Post
Read the LTE here. The March 23 editorial “Give North Korea the Iran treatment” continued the general practice of claiming that North Korea failed to fulfill its commitments, when it was the United States that failed to do so in the two most promising negotiations to stop the North Korean nuclear weapons program. Read the […]