A NOTE FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOHN TIERNEY Friend, I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well and finding comfort in these uncertain times. At the Center, we are all working from our respective homes as much as possible, for which we are incredibly thankful. We know that with obvious public health and […]
Staff Profile: Meet Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director
HOW LONG HAVE YOU WORKED AT THE CENTER? Since March 2017. WHAT IS THE BEST PART OF YOUR JOB? Working with such a great team on something we all are so passionate about. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO WORK IN NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION? I like a challenge and this field is nothing if not challenging. I […]
Fact Sheet: France’s Nuclear Inventory
France began its nuclear weapons program in the early 1950s in an effort to restore political and military parity with their perceived peers and potential adversaries. In the wake of the United Kingdom and Russia acquiring nuclear capabilities, France moved quickly and produced its first plutonium bomb on July 1, 1963. The size, structure and doctrine […]
White House Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2021 Nuclear Weapons Spending
Total Nuclear Weapons Spending in Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Request Total Spending $44.5 billion Department of Defense $28.9 billion Department of Energy $15.6 billion [Sources: Department of Defense: FY 2021 Budget Briefing; Department of Energy: FY 2021 Congressional Budget Request for the National Nuclear Security Administration, Volume 1] DoD Nuclear Weapons Funding Request for Selected Systems Allocated to: […]
Academic article: How to fix, preserve and strengthen the Open Skies Treaty
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell co-authored an article in Deep Cuts on how to save the Open Skies Treaty. A picture, it is said, is worth 1,000 words. The image-centric Treaty on Open Skies (Open Skies) embodies that concept perfectly. The trusted pictures shared among all the Parties to the treaty create more certainty than […]
