Executive Director John Tierney wrote an op-ed in The Hill urging his former colleagues in Congress not to fund an expensive expansion to missile defense without first proving that it works. The Trump Administration’s new missile defense plan could require taxpayers to foot the bill for a new nuclear arms race. It has been the […]
Trump’s Missile Defense Plan Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in WIRED Magazine discussing the Trump Administration’s Missile Defense Review. “The main significance of the review is that it changes the program from a limited, regional defense system to an unlimited, global defense system. That is simple to say—it is impossible to do,” says John Tierney, the executive director […]
Trump pledges to devise system to down missiles launched at U.S. ‘anywhere, anytime, anyplace’
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with the Washington Post about the Trump Administration’s new Missile Defense Review. Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said the report looked to “lay the groundwork for vastly expanded missile defenses targeted beyond ‘rogue’ states” — an approach, she said, that risked “voluntarily walking […]
Arms Control Expert: Trump Administration Missile Defense Review Doubles Down on Bad Bet
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Anna Schumann, Communications Director 202.546.0795 #2115 | aschumann@armscontrolcenter.org Arms Control Expert: Trump Administration Missile Defense Review Doubles Down on Bad Bet Washington, DC—John Tierney, Executive Director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and former nine-term Member of Congress, released the following statement after the Trump Administration released its Missile […]
Donald Trump’s Space Missile Plan is Too Expensive and Will Not Work, Just Like His Border Wall, Experts Say
Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in Newsweek discussing the Trump Administration’s Missile Defense Review. John Tierney, former chairman of the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the Government Oversight and Reform Committee, who now serves as executive director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, agreed. He said Trump’s zeal to strengthen […]
