Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell wrote an op-ed in the East Asia Forum about progress in North Korean nuclear negotiations one year after the first summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un. ‘Fortune favours the bold’, ‘no guts, no glory’, and ‘go big or go home’. All these cliches were likely going through US President […]
Comparative Sizes of U.S., Russian and Chinese Nuclear Inventories
President Trump has discussed not wanting to extend the New START treaty with Russia without including China in the future. While wanting a multilateral deal with China is admirable, we can’t lose New START in the meantime. The inventories are just not comparable.
FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with the Future of Life Institute for their podcast on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and nuclear weapons testing. Read the transcript or listen to the podcast. Nuclear weapons testing is mostly a thing of the past: The last nuclear weapon test explosion on US soil was conducted over 25 […]
‘Nobody’s happy about it’: Missile tests increase tensions with North Korea
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Sinclair Broadcasting about North Korea’s latest tests. “These tests are concerning and indicate a growing impatience in Pyongyang over the state of negotiations with the United States,” said Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. The latest missile tests do not violate […]
How to Avoid Another Korean War
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with The National Interest about the ongoing denuclearization negotiations with North Korea. As Alexandra Bell, the senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, explained to the National Interest, “[The] Hanoi [summit] was a failure for many reasons, not the least of which was lack of preparation. […]
