By James Loftis, Policy Intern The Trump Administration just released its “Executive Summary of Findings on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and Commitments,” also known as the Compliance Report. As directed by Congress, the Department of State is required to provide an annual report on “the status of United States policy and […]
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 […]
Academic article: How to fix, preserve and strengthen the Open Skies Treaty
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell co-authored an article in Deep Cuts on how to save the Open Skies Treaty. A picture, it is said, is worth 1,000 words. The image-centric Treaty on Open Skies (Open Skies) embodies that concept perfectly. The trusted pictures shared among all the Parties to the treaty create more certainty than […]
Nuclear Insecurity
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was a guest on the Press the Button podcast, on which she discussed the Trump Administration’s potential to be the only administration in 60 years not to start or finish a nuclear arms control agreement; the decisions facing the president sworn in in 2021; and how nuclear arms control struggles […]
Op-ed: Abandoning Open Skies: Trump Would Be Squandering More of Our Security Inheritance
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell and FCNL’s Anthony Wier co-wrote an op-ed in Just Security about the importance of remaining in the Open Skies Treaty. Last December, 25 Americans, along with counterparts from Canada, Germany, France, Romania, and the United Kingdom, joined Ukrainians on an urgent mission to help them defend their nation. A few days […]
