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July 18, 2017

House Completes Consideration of Inflated Annual Defense Bill

House consideration of the annual defense authorization bills has been a debacle in recent years and this year is no exception. Republican hardliners control the House Armed Services Committee and the House floor; a terrible bill voted out of the Armed Services Committee became even worse. As in the past, a more reasonable outcome for […]

Posted in: Legislative Analysis, Political Analysis

July 18, 2017

Policy Analyst James McKeon’s Op-Ed in Penn Live

Read the full op-ed in Penn Live here.  For decades, nuclear arms control has been one of the few subjects garnering support from both Democrats and Republicans. Regardless of political ideology or preference, lawmakers in Washington and Americans across the country have largely agreed that reducing the risk of nuclear weapons benefits U.S. national security. […]

Posted in: Political Analysis, Press Room

July 7, 2017

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell’s Op-Ed in Raleigh News and Observer

Read the full op-ed in Raleigh News and Observer. Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, duck-and-cover drills are distant memories for most Americans. Unfortunately, Russia’s nuclear arsenal still poses an existential threat to the United States. Over the years, the United States has worked tirelessly to build an intricate system of […]

Posted in: Political Analysis, Press Room

June 21, 2017

Facebook Live with Council ED John Tierney

Missed Council Executive Director John Tierney on Facebook Live? Watch the replay! Former Congressman Tierney talked about the results of Georgia’s 6th District special election, the 2018 mid-terms elections, the Trump Administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the defense budget, nuclear modernization plan, U.S. missile defense, the North Korean threat, and a whole lot more.  

Posted in: Political Analysis

May 17, 2017

Democratizing the Decision to Use Nuclear Weapons

James Comey, Stephen King and George Will walk into a bar . . . It could be a lead-in to a joke, but unfortunately, it is not. All three gentlemen share a concern about our President’s increasingly erratic and irrational behavior. That concern should rightly increase exponentially when considering that President Donald Trump presently has […]

Posted in: Blog, Political Analysis

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