Derek Johnson, Executive Director of Global Zero, argues that a US no-first-use policy is excactly the kind of ambitious and far-reaching policy agenda needed to begin to unravel the undemocratic and absolute power every American president holds to unilaterally start a nuclear war.

Jon Wolfsthal, Director of the Nuclear Crisis Group, joins PBS NewsHour to talk about the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

Nuclear Crisis Group Director Jon Wolfsthal referenced in US News regarding the United States’ threat to develop new missile systems.

Nuclear Crisis Group Director Jon Wolfsthal and Global Zero Co-Founder Bruce Blair: The U.S. should swear off first use of nuclear weapons. Elizabeth Warren had it right in the debate.

“The death of the INF Treaty, without any plan in evidence to compensate for the deterioration of arms control, will only accelerate our downward spiral into nuclear chaos and potential catastrophe.” – Jon Wolfsthal, director of the Nuclear Crisis Group, on U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty