Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke to Foreign Policy about the United States’ withdrawal from the INF Treaty and what it could mean for our other treaty with Russia. “We have to think about what the world looks like with absolutely no constraints on these types of missiles at all,” said Alexandra Bell, an arms […]
Hospitals and Dirty Bombs: Removing Dangerous Radiological Material from the Public Space
Program Assistant Erin Connolly wrote an academic paper for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Weapons of mass destruction have proven to be an arduous aspiration for state and non-state actors given that they are generally kept in secure facilities. However, radiological materials such as cesium-137 do not share the same obstacles and are […]
Op-ed: Open Skies Treaty: A Quiet Legacy Under Threat
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell co-authored an article in Arms Control Today on the threats against the Open Skies Treaty. On a pleasant day in August 2017, a low-flying jet pierced secure airspace near the White House, the Capitol, and the Pentagon that had been mostly off-limits since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Surprise […]
Op-ed: Trump’s missile defense plans: More theology on unproven technology
Executive Director John Tierney wrote an op-ed in The Hill urging his former colleagues in Congress not to fund an expensive expansion to missile defense without first proving that it works. The Trump Administration’s new missile defense plan could require taxpayers to foot the bill for a new nuclear arms race. It has been the […]
Trump’s Missile Defense Plan Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in WIRED Magazine discussing the Trump Administration’s Missile Defense Review. “The main significance of the review is that it changes the program from a limited, regional defense system to an unlimited, global defense system. That is simple to say—it is impossible to do,” says John Tierney, the executive director […]
