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 […]
Fact Sheet: Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones
Nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) are regional agreements that ban the development, manufacturing, control, possession, testing, stationing and transport of nuclear weapons in a given area. These prohibitions are based on treaties that commit signatories to international verification, control and compliance systems. The aim of these accords is to strengthen global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament norms. There […]
US says Russia is violating key nuclear arms control agreement
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with CNN about U.S. claims that Russia is violating the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the last remaining arms control agreement between the world’s two biggest nuclear powers. John Erath, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, emphasized to CNN on Tuesday that Russia’s noncompliance […]
Op-ed: Russia’s self-defeating move in pausing nuke talks with US
Research Analyst Connor Murray wrote an op-ed in Responsible Statecraft explaining why it was self-defeating for Russia to cancel arms control talks with the United States. “Russia’s announcement on November 28 that it would postpone arms control talks with the United States was yet another signal that its current leadership is choosing a path detrimental to arms […]
