Columns on Fixing the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex

Erik Devereux is a columnist for the online edition of the PA Times, a publication of the American Society for Public Administration.

Erik has taught the course, "Nuclear Weapons Technology," in the Georgetown University Security Studies Program since the spring of 2018. A "radical pragmatist" by trade as a scientist, Erik supports fixing the Nuclear Weapons Complex out of recognition that the creation of nuclear weapons shut down the Great Powers wars that would have decimated billions of lives if allowed to occur after World War Two. As it stands, the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex is suffering from decades of deferred maintenance, mission drift, and loss of capacity. The result may be the first nuclear power to disarm through incompetence brought about by the overall, unwarranted attacks on the federal government that have characterized American politics since 1980.

Here are links to his columns:

• "Part 1 - Unintended Consequences of Decades of Federal Government Budget Failures" (5/20/2022)
• "Part 2 - Making Peace with Nuclear Weapons" (6/17/2022)
• "Part 3 - The Problem Starts with the Pits" (7/15/2022)
• "Part 4 - All Roads Lead to PANTEX" (8/19/2022)
• "Part 5 - Y-12 at a Crossroads" (9/16/2022)
• "Part 6 - The Savannah River Solution" (10/21/2022)