Nuclear security

Outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown has a new job: preventing nuclear war

Brown has been actively involved in trying to manage that risk. He was sharply critical of President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the 1987 arms control treaty prohibiting certain kinds of nuclear missiles. He is on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonpartisan nonprofit that works to mitigate nuclear war risks, and he met this month with US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to discuss global security threats.

“When humankind has in its hands the technology to absolutely destroy all of civilization there is nothing so important it ought to prevent dialogue and deep discussion,” he told the Associated Press. “We still ought to realize that ending civilization is a bigger problem than any of the other problems we have with Russia.”