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September 21, 2020

2020 Election Could Decide Whether US Pursues Nuclear Escalation or Arms Control

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke to Truthout about the potential a U.S. president has to make substantive changes through arms control.

Alexandra Bell, senior policy director with the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation and co-author of the report “Blundering Toward Nuclear Chaos: The Trump Administration After Three Years,” expressed disbelief that Trump would “give up a perfectly good bird in hand” by letting New START lapse.

“It would seem to me that any president would be interested in both making this country safer from nuclear threats and being able to demonstrate that they themselves were responsible for helping reduce those threats.” Read more

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