Program Assistant Erin Connolly writes in Inkstick: Hollywood is fascinated with the future. Long before Schwarzenegger was offering to “pump up Sacramento,” he was walking around naked and stalking Sarah Connor in The Terminator. Movies have depicted the consequences of evolving technology to captivated audiences for years. While Wall-E made my 13-year-old-self worry about sustainable habits on Earth, other films […]
At the Vietnam summit, Trump has a chance to prove everyone wrong on North Korea
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was quoted in Vox discussing the potential outcomes of the summit with North Korea. But nearly all warned that there’s a very real chance the summit could actually have a negative impact on the negotiations — or even lead to a total collapse of the talks altogether. That could happen […]
Op-ed: Human error in high-biocontainment labs: a likely pandemic threat
Lynn Klotz, a member of our Scientists’ Working Group, wrote an article for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It was named “Article of the Month” by the International Biosecurity and Prevention Forum. Incidents causing potential exposures to pathogens occur frequently in the high security laboratories often known by their acronyms, BSL3 (Biosafety Level 3) […]
Harder Tasks Await Trump, Kim at 2nd Summit
Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke to Voice of America about the upcoming second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. One of the biggest accomplishments in Hanoi would be to hand off the nuclear negotiations to specialists, said James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “The […]
Alexandra Bell, policy director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: “It seems they did not learn the lessons of the Cold War”
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with La Tercera, a Chilean newspaper about the potential for a new arms race following U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty. “It can certainly trigger and arms race. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty prohibited the production and deployment of ground-based ballistic missiles and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 […]
