IT’S OUR 60TH ANNIVERSARY! 2022 marks 60 years since nuclear physicist Leo Szilard founded Council for a Livable World! Szilard pushed President Franklin D. Roosevelt to start what became the Manhattan Project then urged President Harry S. Truman not to drop the bomb Szilard helped create. This year, we plan to celebrate with a series […]

DISAPPOINTING FY 2022 DEFENSE POLICY BILL SENT TO BIDEN More than two and a half months into the fiscal year, Congressional leaders finally hammered out a deal on the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that authorizes programs and policies at the Pentagon, NNSA, and other defense activities. The final “compromise” version of the […]

CAN THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL BE SAVED? The planned talks on November 29 will be the seventh round of negotiations since President Joe Biden assumed office and the first round since Ebrahim Raisi was inaugurated as president of Iran. The new Iranian government has outlined additional concessions that go beyond the terms of the original […]

JOIN US AT OUR VIRTUAL ANNUAL CONFERENCE The Center will host our 2021 annual conference, “Arms Control in a Divided America,” on November 2, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Speakers include Members of Congress and arms control experts, featuring Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Sen. Chris Van Hollen; Amb. Susan F. Burk, Former Special Representative of the […]

RETHINKING SECURITY IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD This year marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a day that changed the trajectory of world history in ways that we are still coming to terms with. In this special episode of Nukes of Hazard, host Geoff Wilson talks to Executive Director and former Congressman John […]