Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke with Circa about the fate of the summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. “I think the letter did leave open a potential future summit,” said James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. “It certainly didn’t close all negotiations.” That said, he acknowledged […]
Pompeo’s Iran demands: A ‘bold’ vision or an ‘unrealistic’ wish list?
Policy Analyst James McKeon spoke with Circa about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s demands for Iran detailed in a May 21 speech. According to James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, the Obama administration kept these issues off the table during nuclear negotiations because it was clear Iran would […]
Revealed: Pentagon Push to Hack Nuke Missiles Before They Launch
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke to the DailyBeast about a Pentagon plan to hack other countries’ missiles. Former State Department nonproliferation official Alexandra Bell called the Pentagon plan an “exercise to legally justify a potential attack on a North Korean missile on the launchpad.” “This looks to me like a very elaborate legal justification […]
Will Trump and Kim hash out ‘something like the Iran deal’?
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with Deutsche Welle about the potential summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: If we came out of the summit with something like the Iran deal, that would be both positive and highly ironic. It would […]
Hostages no longer, meet the three Americans freed from North Korea
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with OZY about North Korea freeing American hostages ahead of a potential June 12 summit. This outcome is the result of “months of back-channel negotiations between North Korea and the U.S. State Department, both countries’ intelligence agencies and assistance from the Swedish Embassy,” says Alex Bell, senior policy director […]
