Watch the interview here. North Korea’s missile launch on Sunday, May 13 is said to be a new type of ballistic rocket – that can go higher and farther than any other test yet. It is raising alarms about progress in North Korea’s nuclear capabilities. Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Executive Director John Tierney was […]
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell’s Op-Ed in The Cipher Brief
Read the op-ed here. Imagine the middle of nowhere Alaska. Got that in your head? Great. Now drive 2½ hours further into nowhere and you have arrived at Fort Greeley. I visited in the fall of 2015. It was cold out there—a wet, bitter cold. It’s also slightly eerie. The absolutely enormous ravens all around […]
CBS Sacramento Writes About Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle
Read the full piece here. A Sacramento man is getting lots of questions about North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. Philip Coyle is a former U.S. weapons tester who retired in Sacramento. Coyle was in charge of the last U.S. nuclear test recorded in 1971. He’s suddenly been getting lots of calls. “It actually started right […]
Center’s Scoville Fellow Bernadette Stadler’s Op-Ed in Defense One
Read the full piece here. Skeptics of negotiating with North Korea, including on some days the Trump administration, often point to the breakdown of the Agreed Framework as proof that diplomacy doesn’t work. In doing so, they overlook several key facts, including that the agreement succeeded for eight years and that the United States was partially responsible for its […]
Executive Director John Tierney’s Op-Ed in Huffington Post
Read the full piece in the Huffington Post here. No analysis of the Trump Presidency’s First 100 days would be complete without reviewing how his administration has handled the United States’ most immediate existential threat – nuclear weapons. Mitigating the threat of nuclear weapons and their spread is integral to the safety and security of […]
