Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with POLITICO about the dangers of Russian occupation of a nuclear plant in Ukraine. “The idea of a nuclear accident is scary — it will get people’s attention — so it is a ready-made tool for this purpose” said John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms […]
Russia ratchets up the danger at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Grid about potential dangers at a nuclear plant in Ukraine. There are at least two main threats to this orchestration at Zaporizhzhia, said John Erath, senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. One is of a disaster caused by a cooling failure at the […]
Drive Time: Nuclear Weapons and Global Economy
Senior Policy Director John Erath was a guest on the Voice of Islam’s Drive Time radio show. His segment starts at the 8-minute mark. He discusses everything from the Geneva conference on disarmament, NATO expansion and Russia’s nuclear threats against Ukraine. Voice Of Islam · Drive Time Show Podcast 29-07-2022 | ‘Nuclear Weapons’ and ‘Global […]
Op-ed: Vladimir Putin’s Nuclear Gamble in Ukraine
Senior Policy Director John Erath authored an op-ed in The National Interest arguing that the dangerous combination of ignoring Russia’s failures while at the same time emphasizing nuclear options risks opening the door to a dangerous cycle of escalation. “Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a dangerous choice. Not the one to invade Ukraine, although that […]
How serious is Russia about nuclear war?
Policy Analyst Geoff Wilson talked to Yahoo News about the potential for a Russian use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and how the West might respond to such an attack. “The risk is higher now than it has been in decades,” Geoff Wilson, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told […]