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May 25, 2021

Op-ed: Missile Defense is Not a Substitute for Arms Control

Executive Director John Tierney and Research Analyst Samuel Hickey co-authored an op-ed in War On the Rocks arguing that bringing up missile defense in strategic stability talks with Russia is a point of leverage for the United States, not the other way around. “President Ronald Reagan had a dream of an impregnable shield that could swat away […]

Posted in: Center in the News, Missile Defense, Press & In the News on Missile Defense, Press & In the News on Russia, Press Room, Russia, United States

May 11, 2021

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense: Defense Theology With Unproven Technology

Expensive, unproven and duplicative. Here’s why we don’t need GMD.

Posted in: Issue Center, Missile Defense Infographics, United States

April 2, 2021

Fact sheet: U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense

Ballistic missile defense systems seek to defend a given area from attack by locating and tracking an incoming ballistic missile and then launching an interceptor to destroy the missile before it can reach its target. All U.S. interceptors are made up of a booster rocket and a kill vehicle. While most interceptors are “hit-to-kill,” meaning […]

Posted in: Factsheets on Missile Defense, Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons

April 1, 2021

Why would you trust GMD?

Posted in: Issue Center, Missile Defense, Missile Defense Infographics, United States

January 26, 2021

Missile Defense Costs Soar Out of This World

By John Isaacs and Samuel M. Hickey  Pentagon missile defense costs could soar to a massive $176 billion between 2020 and 2029, a 40% increase, according to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report.    Since programs were first launched in the 1950s to build systems capable of intercepting incoming long-distance nuclear or conventional weapons, the United States has spent more than $400 billion* on various missile […]

Posted in: Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons Spending, Nukes of Hazard blog, Security Spending, United States

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