Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Less than one year left to save New START treaty

Today, with US-Russian relations at a post-Cold War low, and as both countries modernize their nuclear arsenals, the threat of a new nuclear arms race underscores the need for sensible non-proliferation and arms control cooperation.

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Test your nuclear weapons knowledge!

Don’t bomb this quiz about nuclear weapons! What do you know about U.S. and global policy?

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Abandoning the Iran nuclear deal was reckless and dangerous

Our experts recommend that the United States returns to compliance with the JCPOA as it is the only responsible pathway to verifiably constrain Iran’s nuclear program.

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The idea is simple: we don’t need to use nuclear weapons first

We can protect ourselves and our allies without having to start a nuclear war. Learn what a No First Use policy would do

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Five ways to donate to the Center

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Nuclear arms control: What happens when US and Russia let it lapse?

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with The Christian Science Monitor about the future of arms control, especially in relation to the United States and Russia. In the early 1960s “we walked up to the edge of the nuclear abyss with the Cuban missile crisis. Then we walked back and started negotiating,” says Alexandra Bell, […]

Talk of reviving nuclear tests raises alarm

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with The Santa Fe New Mexican about a potential resumption of U.S. explosive nuclear testing. “This is really troubling to even be discussing explosive nuclear testing,” said Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the nonprofit Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “We absolutely don’t need to conduct explosive nuclear […]

Utah downwinders denounce Trump’s talk of restarting nuclear tests

Executive Director John Tierney’s statement about the Trump administration’s reported consideration of a nuclear test was mentioned in The Salt Lake Tribune. Neither does John Tierney, a former nine-term Democratic congressman from Massachusetts who now leads the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “It is beyond reckless to provoke a possible widespread return to explosive […]

Op-ed: Trump’s impending withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty is another US foreign policy own goal

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell co-authored an op-ed in Responsible Statecraft about the U.S. withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty. In a now painfully familiar exercise, the Trump administration said this past week that it would leave yet another international agreement. This time it is the Open Skies Treaty, which the United States, Russia, and 32 other […]

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