Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke with Circa about the current state of negotiations with North Korea. “The North Koreans are really hung up on that…,” said James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. “From their perspective, that needs to be done first before we can actually move to a […]
Trump obliterates his dishonesty record: 132 false claims last week, 280 for July
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle spoke with the Toronto Star to fact-check President Trump’s claims about missile defense. Claim: “We make the greatest missiles. We have the anti-missile missiles that shoot down missiles many, many miles away in the sky, like a needle in a haystack. They shoot them down, hard to believe. And we’re […]
Leaked document: Putin lobbied Trump on arms control
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was quoted in POLITICO about the New START Treaty between the United States and Russia. “New START extension should be a priority regardless of other problems in the U.S.-Russia relationship,” said Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official who is senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and […]
Op-ed: Flashback to the Nuclear Security Summits: Why countries still must prioritize action to curb nuclear terrorism
Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Sara Z. Kutchesfahani co-wrote a piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the importance of countries working together to maintain and strengthen nuclear security actions. When a Superman-shaped drone crashed into a French nuclear plant on July 3 of this year, officials were lucky it was just Greenpeace demonstrating vulnerabilities at […]
Op-ed: North Korea’s other weapons of mass destruction
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell and Research Intern Abigail Pokraka wrote a piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the dangers of North Korea’s chemical and biological weapons programs. Achieving the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea will require the most complicated and rigorous security agreement ever negotiated. That means that the Trump Administration has an […]
