Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with US News and World Report about the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, effective August 2. “It could emplace nuclear warheads on intermediate-range missiles, if it wanted to,” says Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Bell added, however, that […]
US pulls out of nuclear treaty, Pentagon to test new missile
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with CNN about the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which ended August 2. Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the non-partisan Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, explains that “with this type of missile there’s very short warning, attacks are harder to spot by radar, so […]
Comparative Sizes of U.S., Russian and Chinese Nuclear Inventories
President Trump has discussed not wanting to extend the New START treaty with Russia without including China in the future. While wanting a multilateral deal with China is admirable, we can’t lose New START in the meantime. The inventories are just not comparable.
FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with the Future of Life Institute for their podcast on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and nuclear weapons testing. Read the transcript or listen to the podcast. Nuclear weapons testing is mostly a thing of the past: The last nuclear weapon test explosion on US soil was conducted over 25 […]
Did abandoning the ABM Treaty make America safer?
By Bryce Farabaugh and Deverrick Holmes, Policy Interns This month marks the seventeenth anniversary of the United States withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, a landmark agreement from the Cold War that limited American and Soviet (and subsequently, Russian) ground-based, anti-ballistic missile defense systems. Originally signed May 26, 1972, between American President Richard Nixon and Soviet General Secretary […]
