Nuclear weapons owned by the United States have been deployed in Europe since the mid-1950s, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized their storage at allied North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bases on the continent for use against the Soviet Union. Though NATO officially declares itself a “nuclear alliance,” it does not own any nuclear weapons. […]
Europe
America’s allies support New START extension
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) will expire on February 5, 2021. If that happens, there will be no legal restraints on the world’s two biggest nuclear arsenals for the first time in nearly 50 years. The United States and Russia can choose to extend the treaty by up to five years, through […]
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, […]
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 […]
Democrats warn Trump not to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with POLITICO about U.S. withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty. The Associated Press reported that U.S. allies have already been informed of the impending move. “They asked us not to leave,” said Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official who is now senior policy director for the Council for a […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 11
- Next Page »
