Senior Fellow John Isaacs was quoted in The American Conservative about Pentagon spending added to the Coronavirus relief bill. “The greed is not pretty. The Pentagon has already had $740 billion approved for defense this year, but it and its congressional advocates can’t resist asking for more and funneling more pork to their constituents,” said […]

Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in Common Dreams speaking out against the resumption of explosive nuclear testing the Trump administration reportedly considered. Naturally, nuclear critics have assailed Trump’s new military gambit. John Tierney, the executive director of the Council for a Livable World, declared that the administration’s reported consideration of nuclear tests “was as reckless […]

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was interviewed for an article in CQ Researcher on the potential for a new U.S.-Russian arms race. “If the U.S. and Russia are reinvesting in their strategic arsenals and re-emphasizing nuclear weapons in their national security strategies, they’re telegraphing to the rest of the world that this is where they […]

Executive Director John Tierney was a featured guest on the What Matters Most podcast discussing a variety of topics including waning interest in nuclear arms control, taking for granted the deals that have kept the world safe from nuclear war, the size of nuclear weapons compared to those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict […]