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May 20, 2020

United States Making Sure Nukes Are Safe and Reliable

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with AM 740 KTRH (Houston) news radio about why the United States doesn’t need to conduct explosive nuclear tests.

Nuclear expert Alexandra Bell, a former senior advisor at the State Department, says the United States hasn’t detonated a nuclear bomb since 1992. Bell says with improved science and technology alongside supercomputers, you don’t need to detonate one.

“If you simulate the exposition, you can go back and look for the data we actually have about how our nuclear weapons work, and how they age is much more advanced now,” Bell, who’s now the Senior Policy Director with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said.

Bell said that means the nukes are smaller, safer, and more reliable. The policy the U.S. uses to describe its nuclear goals is called the Stockpile Stewardship Program. Bell told KTRH the last country to actually detonate a weapon for testing was North Korea. Read more

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