By John Erath On June 6, the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River was breached, flooding large areas and worsening an already dire humanitarian situation for the people of Ukraine, and creating an ecological nightmare. At this point, what exactly caused the disaster is unclear; both sides in the conflict blame the other. The effects, […]
U.S. Release of Nuclear Data Promotes New START Transparency Amid Nuclear Tension
By Matthew Teasdale In response to the Russian decision to suspend the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the Biden administration last month publicly released American nuclear data. President Vladimir Putin previously halted his country’s compliance and data transfers to coerce Washington into stopping aid shipments to Ukraine. These statistics include information on the […]
A book, nuclear weapons, means and ends
By John Erath One of the benefits of working at the Center is the opportunity to collaborate with some of the top experts in the field, people who bring knowledge, insight and a variety of different viewpoints to discussions of international security. Earlier this year, I was privileged to chair a panel including one such […]
The fallacies of the arms control debate in times of tension
By Farah Sonde As the Center’s Communications Associate, I try to absorb as much of the current dialogue on arms control as humanly possible. The tense situation resulting from Russia’s use of nuclear threats to facilitate its aggression has set the arms control debate on fire in a way our field of work hasn’t seen in years, […]
Is New START worth keeping?
By Matthew Teasdale The fate of the last nuclear arms control treaty between the two largest nuclear powers is under serious duress. Russia has suspended its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) and halted semiannual data exchanges on its nuclear arsenal. Ever since, a so-called “end of nuclear arms control” has […]
