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 […]
Op-ed: America Needs Immediate (Socially Distanced) Negotiations with North Korea
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell wrote an op-ed in The National Interest explaining the need for talks between the United States and North Korea to resume immediately, even during Covid-19. As has been noted for many months, the Trump Administration’s comically over-produced and substantively underwhelming attempts at nuclear diplomacy with North Korea have yielded no […]
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 […]
Myanmar should finally come clean about its chemical weapons past—with US help
Gregory Koblentz, member of the Scientists Working Group on Chemical and Biological Security, co-authored a piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Myanmar’s chemical weapons past. In November 2012, US President Barack Obama arrived at Aung San Suu Kyi’s mansion, the place where the iconic democracy activist had spent much of the last […]
