By Lyndon Burford, Oliver Meier, Nick Ritchie | Apr 19, 2019
Speaking to the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament on March 26, US Assistant Secretary of State Chris Ford presented the “Creating an Environment for Nuclear Disarmament” (CEND) initiative, which aims to bring countries together to explore how “it might be possible to ameliorate conditions in the global security environment so as to make that environment more conducive to further progress toward—and indeed, ultimately to achieve—nuclear disarmament.” Other interested states, and particularly US allies, should engage with the initiative, but with caveats.