To download a PDF version, click here. A. Treaties: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty House: Sections 1243 and 1244: Authorizes $25 million to establish a program of record to develop a conventional road-mobile ground-launched cruise missile system that, if tested or deployed, would violate the INF Treaty. Senate: Section 1635: Authorizes $65 million to establish […]
No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea’s Missiles
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in Defense One. “The success rate of the GMD systems in flight intercept tests has been dismal,” says former director of operational testing for the Pentagon, Philip Coyle. Read the full piece here.
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle’s Interview in The Cipher Brief
Read the full piece in The Cipher Brief here. North Korea’s July intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests have crossed a new capability threshold, allowing Pyongyang to potentially reach the continental United States. Further, U.S. intelligence estimates predict that North Korea now possesses the technology to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and place it on an ICBM. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in LA Times
Read the full piece in the LA Times here. Philip E. Coyle III, a retired nuclear weapons design executive for the Energy Department and a former senior Pentagon official, said North Korea’s two-stage Hwasong-14 missile, which flew 45 minutes and reached an altitude of 1,850 miles in space in late July, is significantly smaller than […]
THAAD: A Band-Aid for Potential Bullet Wounds
On July 30, 2017, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced it conducted a successful test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The test came in the wake of another successful test of THAAD held just weeks before, and after reports that the South Korean government will proceed with further deployment of the […]
