Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with US News and World Report about the United States testing a missile after pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. Alexandra Bell, senior policy director with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, says critics in Congress may push back against expanding future military tests. Some leaders […]
Front and Center: August 17, 2019
THE FATE OF NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL WITH RUSSIA As of August 2, only one treaty stands between an all-out nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia after the Trump administration and Russian government failed to salvage the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, a Reagan-era deal that led to the destruction of nearly 2,700 […]
History of U.S.-North Korean diplomacy
No First Use and the Myth of ‘Tying the President’s Hands’
By Abigail Stowe-Thurston, Program Coordinator, No First Use In a recent interaction at a campaign event (which you can watch in full below), 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Maryland Congressman John Delaney discussed his position on adopting a nuclear No First Use policy. “I can’t imagine when you would ever use a nuclear weapon […]
Nuclear Explosion Threatens Russian Missile Program, Analysts Say
Policy Analyst Geoff Wilson spoke with U.S. News and World Report about the recent explosion in Russia. Geoffrey Wilson, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, says the accident shows the technology is costly and dangerous – reasons why the U.S. military abandoned pursuit of it during the height of the […]
