Read the full piece in POLITICO here. On May 30, after years of planning, the Department of Defense intercepted a mock intercontinental ballistic missile, the first successful test of its ground-based program against an ICBM-range target. Top Pentagon officials hailed the test, with Vice Adm. Jim Syring, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, calling […]
Fact Sheet: North Korea Nuclear Weapons Activity
Updated May 2022 Number of nuclear weapons Unverified, but recent estimates suggest that North Korea possesses enough fissile material for 20-60 nuclear weapons. The actual number of weapons is likely lower. Nuclear tests October 2006 – Claimed successful. Deemed unsuccessful. On October 16, 2006, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence confirmed that “North Korea conducted […]
National Advisory Board Member Thomas Graham Jr.’s Op-Ed in U.S. News and World Report
Read the full piece here. The great Cold Warrior and international negotiator Ambassador Paul Nitze once said to me “Whenever I enter one of these negotiations (U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms negotiations) I try to imagine the narrow strip where both sides can stand comfortably. Then I try to steer U.S. policy toward that place.” That is […]
Board Member Dr. Jim Walsh’s Op-Ed in Fox News
Read the full piece here. As the taxi takes me to the next meeting, the lead story on the local radio station is the horrific death of Otto Warmbier. But I am not in Boston or Washington – I am in Seoul, here for the week at the invitation of the South Korean Foreign Ministry. With […]
Board Member Dr. Jim Walsh Quoted in The Atlantic
Read the full piece here. Jim Walsh is a senior research associate at the MIT Security Studies Program and a board member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. I talked with him this spring, as tensions between North Korea and the U.S. escalated. “I had a friend who just returned from Seoul, where […]
