The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation is the Council’s affiliated 501(C)(3) research organization.Trump Administration Releases Missile Defense Review
On Thursday, the Trump Administration released its long-awaited Missile Defense Review (MDR), the guiding document for the administration’s plan for the systems that, among other things, are supposed to protect the United States from incoming nuclear missiles. As Executive Director John Tierney explains, the MDR lays the groundwork for massively expanding national missile defenses before proving the existing program works. If the plan is funded by Congress, it would come at an astronomical cost and threaten strategic stability with Russia and China.
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New Nukes of Hazard Podcast: Trumping Reagan’s Nuclear Legacy
President Trump has announced that the United States will withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a landmark agreement negotiated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. This episode dives into the consequences of the decision and what it could mean for broader nuclear arms control moving forward. Listen now |Download from App Store | Download from Google Play
Our Take
Op-ed: What You(th) Can Do About Nuclear Weapons: Center Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Sara Z. Kutchesfahani and Program Assistant Erin Connolly wrote an op-ed in conjunction with the Outrider Foundation explaining how youth (and non-youth) can help the disarmament and non-proliferation movement. Read more
Center in the Press Trump’s Missile Defense Plan Creates More Problems Than it Solves: Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in WIRED saying that while the idea behind national missile defense may sound simple, it has proven itself very difficult. Read more
Trump pledges to devise system to down missiles launched at the U.S. ‘anywhere, anytime, anyplace’: Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell told The Washington Post that the MDR takes an approach that risks “voluntarily walking into a new arms race.” Read more
Donald Trump’s Space Missile Plan Is Too Expensive and Will Not Work, Just Like His Border Wall, Experts Say: Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in Newsweek saying that national missile defense is more theology than technology. Read more
US to begin nuclear treaty pullout next month after Russia missile talks fail: Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell told The Guardian that the U.S. should not have rejected an offer from Russia that could have been a foundation on which to rebuild nuclear talks. Read more
US, N. Korea, appear headed toward a second summit, but to what end?: Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell told Stars and Stripes that a best-case scenario for a second summit is that Kim Jong-Un and President Trump agree on general parameters of an agreement then let technical experts hammer out the details. Read more
Council New Member Reception
Council for a Livable World partnered with three other progressive foreign policy groups to host a reception for many like-minded new members of Congress, including many of the candidates you tirelessly supported in the 2018 midterms. Read more and see a few photos from the event
