Podcast appearances and mentions of Alexandra Bell

In just the first four months of the Trump administration, several pillars of American foreign policy have been upended — USAID dismantled, most foreign aid frozen, and the rules-based international trade system thrown into disarray. Could nuclear policy be next? To find out, I spoke with Alexandra Bell, President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and a former senior State Department official on nuclear issues. She breaks down the key decisions facing the administration — and the risks tied to some of the options on the table, particularly around missile defense. We also unpack the state of nuclear diplomacy with Russia and China, and why forcing trilateral arms control talks is likely a dead end. This conversation is a clear-eyed look at the current state of play in Trump's nuclear policy — and where it may be headed next. We recorded this live at the Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference. More conversations are coming soon. To catch them live, subscribe below or get the Substack app.

Visit us at Network2020.org.Humanity stands closer than ever to catastrophe, warn the experts behind the Doomsday Clock. The tracker of human-caused destruction ticked one second closer to midnight last month, the closest it has ever been in its nearly eight-decade history. The shift reflects growing nuclear tensions, particularly the impending expiration of the New START treaty in 2026, which threatens to eliminate the last remaining arms control agreement between the U.S. and Russia. With little indication that either side is willing to extend it, the global nuclear balance grows more precarious. Meanwhile, China is rapidly increasing its warhead stockpile, while North Korea and Iran continue advancing their nuclear programs. As geopolitical tensions escalate, are we witnessing the start of a new nuclear arms race? What risks does this pose for global security, and are there any political openings to establish new arms control frameworks?Join us for a discussion on the escalating risks of nuclear proliferation and the future of arms control, featuring Alexandra Bell, President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Ambassador Steven Pifer, affiliate of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Dr. Tong Zhao, Senior Fellow at the Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie China at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and nonresident researcher at the Science and Global Security Program of Princeton University.

This episode we are joined with Alexandra Bell, a Holistic Stylist for Business Women, aspiring to show up energetically in style in their business to make more money. We discuss body image, confidence and what makes women feel good with the unrealistic beauty standards of who we are and how we present ourselves to the world.  Listen in to see how to work with Alexandra and her beautiful pieces of advice she shares with us all. 

Remi Kalir discusses his #Annotate22 project and the impact of annotation in the world on episode 404 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode Annotation is all around us. -Remi Kalir Annotation is an everyday literacy practice and you are an annotator. -Remi Kalir Annotation provides information. -Remi Kalir This is an act of public pedagogy. -Remi Kalir Resources Annotation, by Remi Kalir & Antero Garcia Crowdsourcing Ungrading, by David Buck - produced by the #UNgrading Virtual Book Club On Grading, Efficiency, and Contingency - Chapter by Mary Klann in Crowdsourcing Ungrading Remi's blog post: #Annotation is (#Annotate22 January) Remi's blog post: #Annotation on (#Annotate22 February) Annotation is a grade with criticism. An instructor grading Jacques Derrida. Annotation is a dedication, a date, a flower. “I give this June day to Ms. Gordon Bottomley the inside of this book. Michael Field June 5, 1908” MD was a pseudonym for authors Gathering Bradley & nice Edith Cooper Annotation is a threat and criminal. Note by Jacob Chansley written at desk of Vice President Mike Pence in the U.S. Senate chamber on January 6, 2021 Annotation on the Woolworth's lunch counter. February 1, 1960, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond & Jibreel Khazan - The Greensboro Four - began sit-in protests The #marginalsyllabus Debbie Reese Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That's Fit to Print, by Sandra Stevenson (about Alexandra Bell's redactions to New York Times headlines) The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell, by Doreen St. Félix PubPub platform The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated The Declaration of Independence: Annotated

Jon Wolfsthal of Global Zero and Alexandra Bell of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation discuss what to expect from President-elect Joe Biden on nuclear policy issues, and what work needs to be done to reduce current nuclear threats. Early Warning features our deputy policy director Mary Kaszynski discussing revelations that President Donald Trump sought options to attack Iran in response to a recent increase in the country’s stockpile of nuclear material.

David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, joins Press the Button for an exclusive interview on the emergence of cyber conflict between countries, and how the rise of cyberweapons like the Stuxnet virus transformed geopolitics. His book The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age, is the basis of a new HBO Original Documentary. Early Warning features Alexandra Bell of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Melissa Hanham of the Open Nuclear Network on the status of New START negotiations and North Korean missiles.

Are we in the middle of a new Cold War — or have we rewritten the game? With old nuclear arms treaties expiring and no new ones being signed, are we adapting to the times — or playing with fire? In episode four of the third season of "Things That Go Boom," our partner podcast from PRX, host Laicie Heeley looks at the past and present of civil defense and nuclear arms control and asks what we can do — as individuals and as a nation — to prevent the existential threat of nuclear war. Guests: Alex Wellerstein, professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology and historian of nuclear weapons; Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation. Additional Reading: NUKEMAP Trump Will Withdraw From Open Skies Treaty, The New York Times Time Running Out on the Last US-Russia Nuclear Arms Treaty, Defense News Will Donald Trump Resume Nuclear Testing?, The Economist

Are we in the middle of a new Cold War? Or have we rewritten the game? With old nuclear arms treaties expiring, and no new ones being signed, are we adapting to the times or playing with fire? In this episode, we look at the past and present of civil defense and nuclear arms control and ask what we can do — as individuals and as a nation — to prevent the existential threat of nuclear war. GUESTS: Alex Wellerstein, professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology and historian of nuclear weapons; Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. ADDITIONAL READING: NUKEMAP. Trump Will Withdraw From Open Skies Treaty, New York Times. Time Running Out on the Last US-Russia Nuclear Arms Treaty, Defense News. Will Donald Trump Resume Nuclear Testing?, The Economist.

Kathleen Hicks continues a discussion with three experts on the issues surrounding nuclear weapons and arms control; Rebecca Hersman, Director of the Project on Nuclear Issues and a Senior Advisor in the International Security Program at CSIS; Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation; and Rebeccah Heinrichs, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Rep. Ro Khanna, US Representative for California's 17th district, returns to Press the Button for an exclusive look at his efforts to redirect Pentagon spending toward efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. High on his list of possible cuts are the massive increases for new nuclear weapons proposed by President Donald Trump, including a freeze on the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Early Warning features Alexandra Bell of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Richard Nephew of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs on a new report detailing the effects of the Trump administration's nuclear policy.

It's our birthday! For the 1-year anniversary of Press the Button, US Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) joins us for a discussion on economic relief in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and what needs to be done to repair the holes in our social contract. Early Warning features Alexandra Bell of the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation and our Roger L. Hale fellow Akshai Vikram discussing US plans to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty, and where former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee for US president Joe Biden stands on nuclear issues.

Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, joins co-host Joe Cirincione for a sobering assessment of the current moment in our nuclear history, and how to prevent the worst from happening during the Trump administration and beyond. Early Warning features our Roger L. Hale fellow Akshai Vikram and Catherine Killough of Women Cross DMZ assessing nuclear policy in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, the impact of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and recent parliamentary elections in Iran.

For our last episode of the year, experts at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation answered listener-submitted questions on topics like how nuclear weapons are made, the situation in the Middle East, the prospects of reaching nuclear zero, and more. Host Geoff Wilson, a policy analyst at the Center, is joined by Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director. Music by BenSound.com.

What was a Russian military plane doing taking pictures over Washington, DC? Arms control experts Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and Anthony Wier, Legislative Secretary for Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, discuss the Treaty on Open Skies. The Open Skies agreement fosters inter-military transparency and cooperation among 34 different countries—including the United States and Russia—by allowing participants to overfly each other’s territory to record and share imagery of military and other installations. During the episode, Bell and Weir outline the role of Open Skies in the Euro-Atlantic security architecture, the treaty’s benefits, the complexity of execution, and current challenges in implementation.

Counternarratives: A Conversation with Alexandra Bell One of the most important questions you can ask about media is how it represents – ideas, things, people. But it’s not just a question of what the mechanisms for representation are. Instead, questions about representation are questions about meaning and about power: how they are produced and maintained. And representations are a site of struggle over meanings and power. The news media are one particularly potent site for engaging with the politics of representation. How are stories told in the news? What cultural frameworks guide the construction of news stories and, in turn, our engagement with the news? How do these frameworks help perpetuate harmful ideological positions? On this episode of Modern Media, we speak with multimedia artist Alexandra Bell about her work that engages with precisely these questions of representation. In particular, we talk with her about two series of prints that she has produced over the last several years. The earlier series - “Counternarratives” - reimagines New York Times articles (through revision, redaction, annotation, and magnification) in order to reveal and confront the news media’s complicity in perpetuating racial prejudice. Her later series, “No Humans Involved: After Sylvia Wynter,” (which was part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial) engages the coverage surrounding what came to be called the “Central Park Five” or the “Central Park Jogger” case from 1989. Across both series, Alexandra Bell’s work reveals the explicit and implicit biases that underwrite news narratives involving communities of color, and how those biases circulate nearly invisibly under the guise of journalistic objectivity. Read more about Alexandra Bell’s work: From The New Yorker magazine, April 17, 2019 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-artist-revises-the-racist-news-coverage-of-the-central-park-five From The New Yorker magazine, May 29, 2018 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-alexandra-bell-is-disrupting-racism-in-journalism The New York Times, December 7, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/arts/design/artist-alexandra-bell-dissects-the-new-york-times.html Episode Music Credits: Blue Dot Sessions “An Oddly Formal Dance” (www.sessions.blue) “Careless Morning” (www.sessions.blue) “Our Digital Compass” (www.sessions.blue) “Our Own Melody” (www.sessions.blue)

The Trump administration announced it’s throwing out a decades-old arms treaty with Russia. Arms control specialist Alexandra Bell explains why this news pairs well with a stiff drink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan talks to Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, about Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-Un and what, if anything, substantive came out of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virginia Heffernan talks to Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, about Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-Un and what, if anything, substantive came out of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radha, Loren, and Erin invite Alex Bell to preview the Singapore Trump-Kim summit, explaining that while there’s more than staring into one another’s eyes for arms control, chemistry is a good start. When we recorded, the G7 had wrapped but not yet crashed and burned into a playground taunt with Canada, so Radha gives a good lesson on tariffs instead of assessing border skirmishes along the Great Lakes. If you’ve been distracted you may have not noticed the absurd amount of Chinese espionage activity as the OPM hacks bear fruit. The show recommends everyone keep an eye on the Pompeo-Bolton tea leaves and how Pompeo’s embrace of State bureaucracy may be hamstrung.  Erin kicks off a new segment, the Soapbox, on Google’s rejection of military AI work and what that means for future advances in military technologies.  Conflicting Civilian casualty reporting, protests in Jordan, and SOF in Somalia are somehow the lesser included events in the crazy three ring goat rodeo of a week. Credit for this week’s title and general approach to life go to Jeffrey Lewis.   Alexandra Bell and James McKeon, Three strikes means Bolton should be out, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The Once and Future Framework, The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation R Scott Kemp, North Korean disarmament: build technology and trust, Nature John Lyons, "From ‘Punk Kid’ to 21st Century Tyrant: Kim Jong Un Seizes His Moment,” Wall Street Journal Zainab Fattah, "Saudis to Host Jordan-Support Meeting After Tax Bill Protests,” Bloomberg Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, “US service member killed in Somalia,” CNN U.S. Africa Command, “U.S. Statement on Situation in Somalia,” AFRICOM Shawn Snow, “One US special operations member killed, several wounded in attack in Somalia,” Military Times Aruna Viswanatha, "Ex-CIA Officer’s Case Highlights Fears About Reach of Chinese Spying,” Wall Street Journal Adam Goldman, “Ex-C.I.A. Officer Is Convicted of Spying for China,” New York Times Mike Ives, “U.S. Army Veteran Tried to Spy for China, Officials Say,” New York Times Ellen Nakashima and Paul Sonne, "China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare,” Washington Post Ian Brown, "Imagining a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?” War on the Rocks Thomas Wright, “Trump Is Choosing Eastern Europe,” Atlantic Susan B. Glasser, "Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone,” New Yorker Neil Irwin, “What Is the Trade Deficit?” New York Times Kai Ryssdal, “How U.S. trade policy has changed over 30 years,” Marketplace Heather Long, “There are ‘nuggets of truth’ to what Trump says about trade,” Washington Post Robbie Gramer, Pompeo’s Pledge to Lift Hiring Freeze at State Department Hits Big Snag, Foreign Policy  Casualty Records, Department of Defense "Syria: Raqqa in ruins and civilians devastated after US-led ‘war of annihilation,’” Amnesty International Helene Cooper, “U.S. Strikes Killed Nearly 500 Civilians in 2017, Pentagon Says,” New York Times Sundar Pichai, “AI at Google: our principles,” Google Kate Conger, “Google Backtracks, Says Its AI Will Not Be Used for Weapons or Surveillance,” Gizmodo   Music by Future Teens  Produced by Tre Hester 

Radha, Loren, and Erin invite Alex Bell to preview the Singapore Trump-Kim summit, explaining that while there’s more than staring into one another’s eyes for arms control, chemistry is a good start. When we recorded, the G7 had wrapped but not yet crashed and burned into a playground taunt with Canada, so Radha gives a good lesson on tariffs instead of assessing border skirmishes along the Great Lakes. If you’ve been distracted you may have not noticed the absurd amount of Chinese espionage activity as the OPM hacks bear fruit. The show recommends everyone keep an eye on the Pompeo-Bolton tea leaves and how Pompeo’s embrace of State bureaucracy may be hamstrung.  Erin kicks off a new segment, the Soapbox, on Google’s rejection of military AI work and what that means for future advances in military technologies.  Conflicting Civilian casualty reporting, protests in Jordan, and SOF in Somalia are somehow the lesser included events in the crazy three ring goat rodeo of a week. Credit for this week’s title and general approach to life go to Jeffrey Lewis.   Alexandra Bell and James McKeon, Three strikes means Bolton should be out, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The Once and Future Framework, The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation R Scott Kemp, North Korean disarmament: build technology and trust, Nature John Lyons, "From ‘Punk Kid’ to 21st Century Tyrant: Kim Jong Un Seizes His Moment,” Wall Street Journal Zainab Fattah, "Saudis to Host Jordan-Support Meeting After Tax Bill Protests,” Bloomberg Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, “US service member killed in Somalia,” CNN U.S. Africa Command, “U.S. Statement on Situation in Somalia,” AFRICOM Shawn Snow, “One US special operations member killed, several wounded in attack in Somalia,” Military Times Aruna Viswanatha, "Ex-CIA Officer’s Case Highlights Fears About Reach of Chinese Spying,” Wall Street Journal Adam Goldman, “Ex-C.I.A. Officer Is Convicted of Spying for China,” New York Times Mike Ives, “U.S. Army Veteran Tried to Spy for China, Officials Say,” New York Times Ellen Nakashima and Paul Sonne, "China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare,” Washington Post Ian Brown, "Imagining a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?” War on the Rocks Thomas Wright, “Trump Is Choosing Eastern Europe,” Atlantic Susan B. Glasser, "Under Trump, “America First” Really Is Turning Out to Be America Alone,” New Yorker Neil Irwin, “What Is the Trade Deficit?” New York Times Kai Ryssdal, “How U.S. trade policy has changed over 30 years,” Marketplace Heather Long, “There are ‘nuggets of truth’ to what Trump says about trade,” Washington Post Robbie Gramer, Pompeo’s Pledge to Lift Hiring Freeze at State Department Hits Big Snag, Foreign Policy  Casualty Records, Department of Defense "Syria: Raqqa in ruins and civilians devastated after US-led ‘war of annihilation,’” Amnesty International Helene Cooper, “U.S. Strikes Killed Nearly 500 Civilians in 2017, Pentagon Says,” New York Times Sundar Pichai, “AI at Google: our principles,” Google Kate Conger, “Google Backtracks, Says Its AI Will Not Be Used for Weapons or Surveillance,” Gizmodo   Music by Future Teens  Produced by Tre Hester 

The Trump Administration has just released its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a document that calls for new nuclear capabilities and shatters a decades-old bipartisan consensus that reduced the role of nuclear weapons in American national security strategy. We dive into the NPR with nuclear experts Dr. Adam Mount, Anthony Wier, and Alexandra Bell. Music: www.bensound.com