Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was a featured guest on Ploughshare’s Press the Button podcast, talking about the importance of remaining in the Open Skies Treaty.
North Korea’s “increasingly sophisticated” nuclear program threatens U.S.: DOD
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with NK News about the Trump administration’s lack of ongoing negotiations with North Korea. “It is not news to anyone that North Korea continues to advance its nuclear weapons and missile capabilities or that Iran continues to improve its ballistic missile technologies,” said Bell, the senior policy director at […]
Trump administration determined to exit treaty reducing risk of war
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 […]
