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 […]
What Gov. Bullock Should Know About No First Use
By Abigail Stowe-Thurston, Program Coordinator As Wednesday’s debate began to wind down around 10 p.m., a lively discussion of U.S. nuclear weapons policy ramped up onstage. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the sponsor of legislation that would make it the policy of the United States not to use nuclear weapons first, explained that a No First Use […]
Why Don’t Americans Talk About Their Nukes Anymore?
Many Americans believe the “nuclear issue” was solved when the Cold War ended. Yet, there are still 14,000 nuclear weapons around the world today in the arsenals of nine countries. The United States alone currently maintains an arsenal of more than 6,000 weapons—more than enough to end life on this planet several times over. Americans […]
North Korea Fires Two Short-Range Missiles off Its East Coast; Test coincides with a visit to Seoul by national security adviser John Bolton
Program Coordinator Abigail Stowe-Thurston spoke with The Wall Street Journal about North Korea firing off short-range missiles. The North’s latest missile launch likely sends the message that the U.S. may be running out of time to offer North Korea some kind of concession, said Abigail Stowe-Thurston, program coordinator for the Washington-based Center for Arms Control […]
