Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell and Scoville Fellow Luisa Kenausis break down the transcript from the Singapore Summit in Inkstick and explain President Trump’s nuclear misstatements. Since President Trump met with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un earlier this week, the pace and volume of news and analysis has been overwhelming. President Trump’s post-summit press conference […]
Op-ed: With North Korea, diplomacy is our best and only option
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell wrote an op-ed in the Seattle Times on why diplomacy remains the best option in nuclear negotiations. As the hard work of negotiations begins and the headlines shift to other topics, the public cannot lose focus. Each and every seemingly normal day of our lives, we are living under the […]
Mike Pompeo Says Sanctions Will Remain on North Korea Until Complete Denuclearization
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Time about President Trump’s decision to pause joint military drills in South Korea without consulting allies. Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation tells TIME that while pausing the drills “may, in the end, be the right move” the decision should […]
A brush with history
Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Sara Z. Kutchesfahani was quoted in London’s The World Weekly about how unprecedented North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons would be. “While we have seen countries give up their nuclear ambitions, we have never seen a country give up its nuclear weapons before – at least a country that we know […]
Trump’s Singapore Summit Was Far From Perfect, But It’s Better Than Threatening War
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Huffington Post about the demands made during the Trump-Kim summit. Those demands resembled what Republicans pushed for when the Obama administration was pursuing negotiations with Iran, but they aren’t realistic, or even necessarily desirable, said Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official who worked on arms control issues. […]
