“The treaty is most consequential in Europe; it’s the place that was protected by the treaty,” said Ellen Tauscher tells TIME reports on the INF Treaty. “The Europeans have a lot at risk here, and the international community at large should not want to see a return to Cold War tactics or deployments.”

Jon Wolfsthal is quoted in The Washington Post discussing Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Adam Smith’s new No First Use legislation.

According to the Doomsday Clock, it’s still 2 minutes to midnight. That’s the same time as last year, and remains the closest it’s been since 1953 at the height of the Cold War. “If the world seems less dangerous than it did a year ago, it’s because we’re becoming numb to the chaos and instability underpinning the nuclear balance of terror,” said Derek Johnson of Global Zero, a group that seeks to eliminate nuclear weapons. “We can’t afford to bury our heads in the sand.”

President Donald Trump’s administration released a review of US missile defenses on Thursday that totally reimagined how the US will fight nuclear wars. Global Zero’s Bruce Blair cited as expert.

In this interview with Bulletin editor-in-chief John Mecklin, Jon Wolfsthal provides his wide-ranging views on the current nuclear situation, how the new Congress might deal with US plans for a $1 trillion-plus modernization of the American nuclear arsenal, and ways the inordinate cost of that modernization program might be reduced.