In a new Washington Post op-ed headlined “What Xi Must Tell Putin Now,” NTI Board members Mike Mullen, Sam Nunn, and Ernest J. Moniz call on China to wield its “unique position of influence” to encourage more “rational” decision-making by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ernest Moniz says the Russian leader needs to back away from the nuclear button.
“The risk of an accident, miscalculation, or disastrous decision is especially ominous when the two countries with the largest nuclear weapon arsenals are on opposite sides.”
NTI Co-Chairs Nunn and Moniz call for President Biden to reduce the risk of nuclear use by conducting a review aimed at strengthening the safeguards that could prevent unauthorized, inadvertent or mistaken use of a nuclear weapon.
In their sixth piece together, Bill Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn pay homage to the late George Shultz with a new op-ed in The Wall Street Journal detailing critical steps to reverse the world’s reliance on nuclear weapons, prevent their proliferation, and ultimately end them as a threat to the world.
In this piece, Vice President of Global Nuclear Policy Lynn Rusten explains that it is much more difficult to develop, negotiate, ratify and implement new nuclear reduction agreements than it is to tear them down.
NTI CEO Ernest J. Moniz explains on the 75th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that there have been more close calls along the way than most people realize, and new threats increase the danger of a catastrophic detonation.
NTI Board members Alexey Arbatov and Igor Ivanov warn that a new cycle of the nuclear and conventional arms race is gaining momentum—and describe steps to avoid it.
We were way behind when Kennedy said we should go to the moon. We can do the same now, but we have to do it in months, not years.
