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The New START Treaty is expiring. Where does that leave Europe’s nuclear arsenal?

Senior Policy Director John Erath spoke with Outrider about European nuclear arsenals after the expiration of New START. At the time, the treaty was applauded for making headway on arms talks with Russia. Still, there was also plenty of criticism, says John Erath, Senior Policy Director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. The upper limits of weapons […]

Summary: Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1071)

Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY26 Request FY25 requested levels come from the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Fiscal Year 2026 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book Request Numbers in this analysis only include discretionary requests Numbers may not add due to rounding Total National Defense Discretionary Spending (050) DOD […]

“The war in Ukraine demonstrated that nuclear weapons have no military use.”

Senior Policy Director John Erath was interviewed by CNN Portugal about nuclear weapons in the Russian war on Ukraine. The original article is in Portuguese. INTERVIEW || John Erath, policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, does not believe we are on the verge of a new global nuclear arms race. However, […]

Reflections On My Fall Internship: Julia Cooper

By Julia Cooper, Policy Intern, Fall 2025 When I was 13, at a luncheon for DACOR, I heard military leaders saying that having more nuclear weapons makes the United States safer — which didn’t seem quite right to me. This piqued my interest in nuclear weapons, and I had my first taste of the nuclear […]

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