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 […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Sputnik News
Read the full piece here. “The failure in flight-intercept tests is all the more surprising, because these tests are highly scripted to achieve success. If these tests were planned to fool US defenses, as a real enemy would do, the failure rate would be even worse,” said Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation senior science […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Live Science
Read the full piece here. From the earliest uses in 1959 of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is designed to deliver nuclear weapons, the U.S. has been working on methods that would protect people from such an attack. Yet decades later, the country still has only a flawed system that most experts believe would […]
