The United States doesn’t need to reserve the right to nuke Australia or Togo. Take one minute and learn how the Senate can make that clear. It’s long past time to ratify the remaining Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones.
North Korea’s “increasingly sophisticated” nuclear program threatens U.S.: DOD
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with NK News about the Trump administration’s lack of ongoing negotiations with North Korea. “It is not news to anyone that North Korea continues to advance its nuclear weapons and missile capabilities or that Iran continues to improve its ballistic missile technologies,” said Bell, the senior policy director at […]
Trump administration determined to exit treaty reducing risk of war
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with The Guardian about the Trump Administration’s seeming intentions to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty. “The administration has yet to put forward any proposals on how to fix the two main issues that we’re having with the treaty, and our allies have reiterated again and again, that they […]
Op-ed: National Security in the Age of Pandemics
Greg Koblentz, member of the Center’s Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Security, wrote an op-ed in Defense One. For the first time since World War II, an adversary managed to knock a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier out of service. Only this time the enemy was a virus, not a nation-state. The fact that we ‘lost’ the […]
Fact Sheet: China’s Nuclear Inventory
Updated December 2024 The People’s Republic of China (PRC) began its nuclear weapons program in the 1950s with significant help from the Soviet Union, which contributed advisors and technical equipment. When Sino-Soviet relations cooled at the end of that decade, China moved forward on its own and successfully tested its first nuclear weapon in October […]
