Read the full piece here. “I can’t imagine what they’re going to say if it fails,” said Philip Coyle, senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. He headed the Pentagon’s office of operational test and evaluation from 1994 to 2001 and has closely studied the missile defense system. “These tests are […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in The Washington Post
Read the full piece here. “If the president of the United States devises policy dealing with North Korea based on a system he believes will protect the U.S. from a missile attack from North Korea, he is operating on false information,” said Philip Coyle, who was an assistant secretary of defense and director of operational […]
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 […]
Fact Sheet: Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
Updated March 2021 The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union that limited the number of ground-based anti-ballistic missile systems and sites that each side could have. Both parties also agreed not to develop sea-based, air-based, or space-based ABM systems. After the fall of the Soviet Union, […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in KBS World Radio
Read the full piece here. Philip Coyle, a senior science adviser with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told science news Web site, Live Science, earlier on Tuesday that though Pyongyang does not yet have the capability needed to deploy nuclear missiles that can hit targets on U.S. soil, the North could soon become […]