Szilard Advisory Board Member Jane Vaynman penned an op-ed in The Washington Post.  “…In designing monitoring for an arms control agreement, states face a trade-off between having enough transparency to observe compliance and needing sufficient safety from observation that could jeopardize their security. For example, visiting all Iranian military facilities could be very useful in […]

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was quoted in The Washington Post regarding President Trump’s claims of missile defense success.  “We have missiles that can knock out a missile in the air 97 percent of the time, and if you send two of them, it’s going to get knocked down.” — President Trump, interview with Sean […]

Szilard Advisory Board Member Jon Wolfsthal co-penned an op-ed in Foreign Policy on reasons why the United States should not deploy nuclear weapons in South Korea.  South Korean officials announced last month that the United States would begin to routinely deploy strategic assets on the Korean Peninsula to help deter North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. The […]

Szilard Advisory Board Member Ned Price wrote an op-ed for McClatchy on the Iran nuclear deal.  As President Trump barrels toward dismantling the Iran deal, profound reverberations on the most pressing nuclear crisis we face are beginning to be felt. This nuclear challenge does not emanate from Iran, a country that prior to formal implementation […]

Scientists Working Group Member Gregory Koblentz wrote an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  The medical consequences of even a single nuclear detonation would be horrific. Read the full article