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Council in the News

November 25, 2020

Trump left the Open Skies Treaty, but don’t write it off yet

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell told DefenseNews that there’s still hope for a U.S. return to the Open Skies Treaty, which President Trump formally withdrew from. Given the partisan dynamics of the Senate, it’s unclear the upper chamber could muster the two-thirds majority required to re-ratify the treaty. However, Biden may be able to re-enter […]

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November 17, 2020

Op-ed: Four steps Biden must take to reset the nuclear agenda

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell wrote an op-ed in Defense News about four steps President-elect and longtime Council endorsee Joe Biden must take to reset the nuclear agenda. While the danger of nuclear weapons was rarely mentioned on the presidential campaign trail, the nuclear weapons policy approaches of the two candidates stood in stark contrast. In […]

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August 19, 2020

Op-ed: July Twitter hack underscores the need to nix ‘sole authority’

Council Board member Jules Zacher co-authored an op-ed explaining why the Presidential sole authority to launch nuclear weapons must be done away with. Even level-headed presidents could make a bad call if their decision is based on systems that suffer from human or machine error. Recall in January 2018 when the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency […]

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July 28, 2020

Surprise! $29.4B In Pentagon Pork Tucked Into GOP Relief Bill

Senior Fellow John Isaacs was quoted in The American Conservative about Pentagon spending added to the Coronavirus relief bill. “The greed is not pretty. The Pentagon has already had $740 billion approved for defense this year, but it and its congressional advocates can’t resist asking for more and funneling more pork to their constituents,” said […]

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July 17, 2020

Making America Feared Again: The Trump Administration Considers Resuming Nuclear Weapons Testing

Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in Common Dreams speaking out against the resumption of explosive nuclear testing the Trump administration reportedly considered. Naturally, nuclear critics have assailed Trump’s new military gambit. John Tierney, the executive director of the Council for a Livable World, declared that the administration’s reported consideration of nuclear tests “was as reckless […]

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