Read the full piece in the LA Times here. Philip Coyle, a former nuclear weapons program executive and later a senior Pentagon official, said the U.S. successfully negotiated two weapons agreements with North Korea starting in the 1990s but let them lapse and squandered the next 15 years. “It is colossal that we have wasted […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Interviewed on RN Breakfast News
Listen to the radio interview here. Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was interviewed by Frank Kelly on ABC’s RN Breakfast News in Australia on North Korea’s recent development of a miniaturized nuclear warhead and what that means since North Korea is now firmly on the path to becoming a full-fledged […]
Executive Director John Tierney Interviewed on BBC Radio 5
Listen to the full episode on BBC Radio 5 here. (Starting at 2:14:35) Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Executive Director John Tierney joined BBC Radio 5 to discuss escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea. Tierney reiterated that the United States and Russia posses over 90% of the world’s nuclear arsenal, and […]
Policy Analyst James McKeon Quoted in WIRED
Read the full piece in WIRED here. “There were some officials both inside and outside of government who already believed that North Korea had the capability to mate a warhead to a missile, but it certainly wasn’t the consensus view,” says James McKeon, a policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “On […]
Policy Analyst James McKeon Quoted in Washington Post
Read the full piece in the Washington Post here. The Air Force routinely tests for the reliability of aging Minuteman III missiles, said James McKeon, a nuclear weapons analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a Washington think tank. The program is more than 50 years old but has gone through rounds of […]