Read the full piece here. Philip Coyle, Senior Science Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, concurred. “After a very poor record with six test failures in a row in the 1990s, THAAD has successfully intercepted its targets in 11 out of 11 tests since 2006, but these tests are highly scripted to […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle and Scoville Fellow Bernadette Stadler’s op-ed in The Hill
Read the full op-ed here. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), the ballistic missile defense system that the United States recently began constructing in South Korea, is intended to protect the South from North Korean aggression. Instead, it is likely that the system will antagonize China — whose cooperation will be necessary to defuse tensions […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle quoted in Net Nebraska
Read the full piece here. Philip Coyle, who was associate director for national security and international affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Barack Obama, likened China’s protest to Russia’s objection to U.S. missile interceptors in Romania and Poland. “Russian President Vladimir Putin hates U.S. missile defenses in Europe […]
Center Contributor Dr. Jim Walsh’s interview in The Cipher Brief
Read the full interview here. In the span of one week we have seen North Korea test four missiles, evidence of U.S. attempts to sabotage North Korea’s missile program with cyber capabilities, the deployment of the controversial THAAD missile defense system to South Korea, and China proposing that the U.S. give up joint military drills […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle quoted in Foxtrot Alpha
Read the full piece here. “If a target is going 15,000 miles an hour and so are you with your interceptor, and if you miss by an inch, you miss by a mile,” Phillip Coyle, the former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon and former assistant secretary of defense, told Foxtrot Alpha. “It’s the […]
