Read the full piece in The Hill here. “They’re going to build more and more offensive missiles to overwhelm our systems, which is the opposite of what we want them to do,” said Philip Coyle, a former Pentagon weapons tester who is now a senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in POLITICO
Read the full piece in POLITICO here. “Partly we are failing because it is the hardest thing the Pentagon has tried to do,” said Phil Coyle, who served as the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester in the Clinton administration and in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama administration. “We’ve had […]
Board Member Dr. Jim Walsh’s Op-Ed in Axios
Read the full piece in Axios here. How does the threat posed by North Korea end? There are many “hard landing” scenarios. War. Regime collapse. A premature exit by Kim Jong Un that leads to a military junta or another family member taking over. There aren’t many “soft landings” except for maybe the “China model,” […]
Amb. Thomas Graham and Bernadette Stadler’s Op-Ed in POLITICO
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 […]
