Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with The Guardian about the United States’ potential withdrawal from the INF Treaty. Alexandra Bell, a former senior arms control official at the state department, now at the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said that in informal, “track two” discussions, Russian arms control experts suggested Moscow might be […]
Bolton pushes Trump administration to withdraw from landmark arms treaty
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with the Washington Post about the United States’ potential withdrawal from the INF Treaty. “The Russian violation of the treaty is dangerous, but it is still possible to get Moscow back into compliance with the agreement,” said Alexandra Bell, a senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control […]
Op-ed: Reports of the death of arms control are greatly exaggerated
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell co-wrote a piece for War on the Rocks decrying the idea that arms control is dead. “To be sure, previous methods of arms control, such as the intensive verification and counting systems of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), might be less relevant today for some issues, but what is needed is […]
Will The Army’s 1,000-Mile Missiles Kill Reagan’s INF Treaty?
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke to Breaking Defense about the current state of arms control between the US and Russia. “Putin is no Gorbachev and Trump is no Reagan,” said Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official now with the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation. We can try to replicate the 1980s’ power play, […]
Op-ed: Congress Wants a Space-Based Missile Defense System. That’s a Colossally Bad Idea
Executive Director John Tierney and Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle wrote an op-ed for Defense One explaining why the proposed space-based missile defense system is a bad idea. In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered an Oval Office speech to announce his Strategic Defense Initiative — or as it was dubbed by critics, “Star Wars.” […]
