Read the full piece here. “Based on its testing record, we cannot rely upon this missile defense program to protect the United States from a North Korean long-range missile,” said Philip E. Coyle of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “In several ways, this test was a $244 million dollar baby step, a baby […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in WIRED
Read the full piece. “These tests are scripted for success,” says Philip Coyle, senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Prevention and former head of the Pentagon’s test and evaluation office. “What’s been surprising to me as that they have failed as often as they have in spite of that.” “If North Korea […]
Expert: Missile Defense Test Result is No Reason to Expand Program
Today’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) intercept test result must be analyzed in the broader context: the program’s success rate is just 40 percent since 2004. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hazel Correa hcorrea@armscontrolcenter.org 202.546.0795 x2115 Washington, DC – Today, the Missile Defense Agency announced that its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) speed intercept test of the Ground-based […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in the Associated Press
Read the full piece in the Associated Press here. Philip E. Coyle, a former head of the Pentagon’s test and evaluation office and a senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Tuesday’s outcome was a significant success for a test that was three years in preparation, but he noted that it […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle III Quoted in the New York Times
Read the full piece here. “Close only counts in horseshoes, not in nuclear war,” said Philip E. Coyle III, a former White House official and former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon who has long faulted the system as unreliable and misleading. If the glancing blow counts as a miss, the system’s failure rate […]
