Research Analyst Samuel Hickey was quoted in Arab News about recent explosions in Iran. Samuel Hickey, research analyst at the Washington-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told Arab News that satellite imagery proves that “the explosion took place at the Khojir missile production complex in eastern Tehran, and not at Parchin as suggested in […]
(The Wrong Apocalypse) – This Is Not a Drill
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was a guest on the podcast Things That Go Boom, talking about nuclear arms control.
The pandemic risk of an accidental lab leak of enhanced flu virus: unacceptably high
Lynn Klotz, a Senior Science Fellow at the Center, published an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about the potential risk involved in a lab accident that releases a flu virus. Why consider the risk of lab accident that releases an influenza virus into the community? Because scientists in various countries continue to […]
U.S. seeks to base missiles in the Pacific. Some allies say no.
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with the Los Angeles Times about the United States potentially basing missiles in the pacific. A decision to go ahead in Asia would intensify an arms race between the region’s two biggest powers whose relations — already tense over President Trump’s confrontational trade agenda and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s […]
‘Sea change:’ Advanced reactors spur look at recycling waste
Research Analyst Samuel Hickey spoke with E&E News about the proliferation concerns inherent in fuel reprocessing policy conversations. Foes of reprocessing see similarities between such defunct nuclear designs and some of the advanced reactor technologies now under development. “There are some new designs, but they are not demonstrably greater, so we are still dealing with […]
