Communications Associate Farah Sonde wrote an op-ed in Inkstick analyzing what Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters teach audiences about their role in nuclear weapons policy and how arms control advocates can change the narrative. As much as I love my job as a Communications Associate at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, there’s nothing more […]
The nucleus: Nevada plays crucial role in U.S. nuclear programs
Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Las Vegas Review-Journal about the role of Nevada in the U.S. nuclear arsenal and increasing nuclear tension surrounding possible testing efforts in Russia. John Erath, senior policy director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Russia’s decision is a strategy to push Western countries’ influence out […]
The Latest Nuclear Boondoggle?
By Connor Murray The Pentagon recently announced plans to develop a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, the B61-13. This proposed bomb would, as the name suggests, be the 13th variant of the B61 and “provide the President with additional options against certain harder and large-area military targets.” The weapon would be delivered […]
The China Dilemma
By John Erath Earlier this year, for the first time since the Cold War, it was announced that the total number of nuclear weapons in the world rose in 2022. Largely, the reason for the increase was China’s rapid construction of additional weapons. Although the United States and Russia are undergoing modernizations of their nuclear […]
2023 was the year the US finally destroyed all of its chemical weapons
John Gilbert, Senior Science Fellow of the Center’s Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security, was quoted in Vox on the destruction of the United States’ chemical weapons stockpile. “A lot of this happened because the CWC is one of a kind: a near-universal disarmament treaty that has real heft behind it. The OPCW, […]
