CNS Non-Resident Scholar
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Twitter: @sbidgood
Sarah Bidgood is a 2023-2024 Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program. Prior to this, she served as Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at CNS. Her work focuses on U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-Russian arms control and nonproliferation cooperation, as well as the nonproliferation regime more broadly. Her research and analysis have appeared in journals such as International Security, the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, and The Nonproliferation Review, as well as outlets including Foreign Policy, Arms Control Today, War on the Rocks, and The National Interest.
Sarah received her BA in Russian from Wellesley College. She holds an MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and an MA with distinction in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Defense Studies at King’s College London, where her dissertation focuses on the relationship between Cold War nuclear crises and arms control.
CNS Work
- The CTBT and the 2020 NPT Review Cycle
Sarah Bidgood in the CTBTO Spectrum magazine - Potential for an Arms Control Treaty with Russia
VIDEO: with CNS expert, Sarah Bidgood. - A Nuclear Test Would Blow Up in Trump’s Face
The Trump administration doesn’t understand the brinkmanship concept its nuclear diplomacy is based on. - CNS Holds Virtual US-Russia Dialogue Featuring Next Generation Experts
The history of US-Soviet/Russian cooperation within the NPT and explored how it has changed over fifty years. - Russia’s New Nuclear Policy Could Be a Path to Arms Control Treaties
Possible opportunities for engagement when other good alternatives are hard to see. - Implications of US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty
The latest blow to the global arms control architecture. - Will Trump Risk National Security and a Deal with North Korea?
If Washington left the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, then Moscow would likely follow suit. - The Bomb in College Classrooms
“We’re not teaching students enough about weapons of mass destruction—and it shows,” warns CNS expert Sarah Bidgood. - Risky Business: Four Ways to Ease US-Russian Nuclear Tension
The era of traditional U.S.-Russian arms control appears to be ending. - US Claims of Russian Noncompliance with Nuclear-Test Ban Raise Questions
CNS experts on fact-checking, background, and implications of the accusations.
