Read the full piece here. “Yes, as a looming threat, not a current threat,” said Philip E. Coyle, a California-based senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a former assistant secretary of defense. “North Korea does not yet have a long-range missile that can reach California. North Korean missiles can’t […]
Fact Sheet: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Updated January 2025 The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral agreement that prohibits the explosive testing of nuclear weapons. The CTBT opened for signatures on September 24, 1996, but the agreement is still in the ratification stage. The United States has signed, but has not yet ratified the treaty. The United States conducted […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Korea Expose
Read the full piece here. Philip Coyle, Senior Science Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, concurred. “After a very poor record with six test failures in a row in the 1990s, THAAD has successfully intercepted its targets in 11 out of 11 tests since 2006, but these tests are highly scripted to […]
National Advisory Board Member General Robert Gard’s Letter to the Washington Post
Read the LTE here. The March 23 editorial “Give North Korea the Iran treatment” continued the general practice of claiming that North Korea failed to fulfill its commitments, when it was the United States that failed to do so in the two most promising negotiations to stop the North Korean nuclear weapons program. Read the […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle’s Interview in La Presse Canada
Read the original interview in French here. For an English translation, click here. President Trump’s willingness to “increase” U.S. nuclear capabilities and the suggestion of being able to use them is a “disturbing” 180 degree turn with respect to the policies of his predecessors, says Philip E. Coyle, former director Associate of the Office of Science and […]
