FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Anna Schumann 202.546.0795 #2115 aschumann@armscontrolcenter.org ARMS CONTROL EXPERT, FORMER CONGRESSMAN: WITHDRAWING FROM INF TREATY MAKES NUCLEAR WAR MORE LIKELY Non-partisan, non-profit nuclear policy organization opposes President Trump’s decision. (FEBRUARY 1, 2019 – WASHINGTON) Withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is tantamount to reigniting a nuclear arms race, said […]
Trump is ‘aiding and abetting’ the arms race
Executive Director John Tierney spoke with Voice of America radio about President Trump’s comments that the arms race and $716B Pentagon budget are “crazy.”
Op-ed: In the Shadow of Reagan’s Legacy, Trump is Failing
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell writes in Inkstick that President Trump is not living up to Ronald Reagan’s nuclear legacy — but he has time to change this. Hofdi House, the site of the 1986 Reykjavik Summit, is a small, unassuming place — a more likely setting for a fairytale than a showdown between the two […]
Op-ed: There’s no such thing as a perfect nuclear arms deal. Trump doesn’t get that.
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell writes in the Washington Post that President Trump doesn’t seem to understand that no arms control deal is perfect, and we can’t let perfect be the enemy of the good. When President Trump walked away from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA — he called it […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Kill the Treaty
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Vox’s Today, Explained podcast about the United States’ potential withdrawal from the INF Treaty.