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Council in the News

May 7, 2025

Shawn Rostker: ‘Quiet diplomacy is likely happening, even if the public posture is more restrained’

Research Analyst Shawn Rostker spoke with India Today about the U.S. stance on tensions between India and Pakistan. Watch more

Posted in: Council in the News, Press Room

December 31, 2024

With Trump at the Helm, Nuclear Uncertainty Is Set to Grow in 2025

Executive Director John Tierney was interviewed in Truthout about the nuclear uncertainty under the incoming Trump administration. Immediately after the U.S. election, Council For a Livable World, a nonpartisan organization that promotes policies to reduce nuclear weapons, identified nine goals for the incoming Trump administration, including demanding greater accountability over nuclear weapons modernization and systems considered “strategically questionable,” […]

Posted in: Council in the News, Political Analysis, Press Room

June 5, 2024

Op-Ed: Where’s the Accountability? Congress Must Get Answers Before Spending More on Missile Program

Executive Director John Tierney wrote an op-ed in Newsweek on the need for greater oversight over the Sentinel missile’s budget overruns. Increasing costs are common in many industries but pose an insidious challenge for military acquisitions. Should a construction project, for example, go over budget, it can be canceled. However, if a defense system runs into increased […]

Posted in: Council in the News, Letters and Publications, Press Room

July 7, 2023

U.S. destroys last of massive chemical weapons stockpile

Senior Fellow John Isaacs was quoted by Axios about the dissolution of the American chemical weapons stockpile. The disposal program in total has cost the U.S. around $40 billion, according to an estimate from John Isaacs, a senior fellow at the Council for a Livable World, which advocates for the elimination of weapons of mass […]

Posted in: Council in the News, Press Room

June 12, 2023

Unlikely bipartisan coalitions could signal congressional readiness to trim US presence overseas

Senior Fellow John Isaacs wrote an op-ed in The Hill about the impact of bipartisan coalitions on foreign policy. “Last month, the House of Representatives defeated a resolution offered by conservative Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to remove about 900 U.S. troops from Somalia. The vote was 102-321, with the votes on the provision split with 52 Republicans and 50 Democrats voting aye. It was an unusual left-right […]

Posted in: Council in the News, Letters and Publications, Press Room

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