Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Vox about the potential Trump-Kim meeting taking place in the Korean DMZ. “In choosing the DMZ, my fear is that the Trump administration is focused on optics, rather than substance or practicality,” Alexandra Bell, a nuclear expert at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told me. “Given […]
Netanyahu says Iran ‘lied’ about nukes: Will new intel convince Trump to kill Iran deal?
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Circa about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s presentation about the Iran nuclear deal. “Everybody is making their closing arguments before the president decides what to do on the 12th,” said Alexandra Bell, who served in the State Department’s arms control bureau during the Iran nuclear negotiations. That includes […]
Netanyahu’s theatrics help push Trump towards Iran deal withdrawal
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with The Guardian about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s anti-Iran-nuclear-deal press conference. “There was nothing there. There was nothing that the IAEA did not know, and all the theatrics and circa-2004 PowerPoint were a bit silly,” said Alexandra Bell, a former state department expert, now senior policy director at […]
Op-ed: Behold, the marticle (a primer on how to avoid only quoting men as sources)
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell and the Arms Control Association’s Kelsey Davenport wrote an op-ed in Poynter explaining why it matters that men are quoted more than women in nuclear policy and national security news articles — and why it needs to stop. The marticle is cousin to the manel, or the all-male panel. Manels […]
(Translation) As in less than a year threat of nuclear war has turned into a promise of peace between Koreas
Executive Director John Tierney spoke to BBC Brazil about his concerns about the process of achieving peace on the Korean peninsula. The possibility of an apocalyptic scenario came not only from the general public, but from experts such as John Tierney, a former US Congressman for the Democratic Party and current executive director of the […]
