Council in the News

Executive Director John Tierney and Council Board member Joe Cirincione wrote an op-ed in Defense One about how President Biden can correct the mistakes of the past, halt an arms race, and put the United States in the driver’s seat by putting missile defense on the table in strategic stability talks with Russia. President Joe […]

A Mother Jones article about President Biden’s fiscal year 2022 defense budget request referenced the Council’s presidential candidate questionnaire. When Joe Biden was elected president, critics of nuclear proliferation had high hopes. Here was a president who had gone on record opposing wasteful spending on nuclear weapons, someone who had warned of the risks of an arms race […]

A USNI News article about on the Navy’s decision to shelve the development of a sea-launched nuclear cruise missile referenced the Council’s presidential candidate questionnaire. The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review led by the Trump administration called for the Pentagon to pursue low-yield nuclear weapons. While Republican lawmakers want to develop the capability, Democrats and President […]

A letter coordinated by the Council for a Livable World and signed by 63 national security leaders, urging President Biden to include missile defenses in strategic stability talks with Russia and China, was featured in a Defense News article. Ahead of President Joe Biden’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin this month, more than 60 advocates, former […]

The Council’s press statement on Biden’s defense budget request, as well as our presidential questionnaire, were referenced in a POLITICO article detailing funding for nuclear weapons outlined in President Biden’s fiscal year 2022 defense budget request. President Joe Biden ran on a platform opposing new nuclear weapons, but his first defense budget backs two controversial […]