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John Gower

Rear Admiral John Gower, CB OBE, is a Senior Advisor to the Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons at the Council on Strategic Risks and former Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Nuclear & Chemical, Biological) in the UK Ministry of Defence. He had MoD lead for the UK nuclear weapons policy between 2008 and 2014).


Articles by John Gower

A launch of the Russian Iskander-M, which can carry a tactical nuclear warhead, at the Kapustin Yar proving ground in March 2018. Photo credit: the websites (mil.ru, минобороны.рф) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Rhetoric in Ukraine has reinforced the fallacy of limited nuclear exchange

By John Gower, Andrew Weber | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons