Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with the Washington Post about the Trump Administration’s new Missile Defense Review. Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said the report looked to “lay the groundwork for vastly expanded missile defenses targeted beyond ‘rogue’ states” — an approach, she said, that risked “voluntarily walking […]
Arms Control Expert: Trump Administration Missile Defense Review Doubles Down on Bad Bet
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Anna Schumann, Communications Director 202.546.0795 #2115 | aschumann@armscontrolcenter.org Arms Control Expert: Trump Administration Missile Defense Review Doubles Down on Bad Bet Washington, DC—John Tierney, Executive Director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and former nine-term Member of Congress, released the following statement after the Trump Administration released its Missile […]
Donald Trump’s Space Missile Plan is Too Expensive and Will Not Work, Just Like His Border Wall, Experts Say
Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in Newsweek discussing the Trump Administration’s Missile Defense Review. John Tierney, former chairman of the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the Government Oversight and Reform Committee, who now serves as executive director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, agreed. He said Trump’s zeal to strengthen […]
Op-ed: Congress Wants a Space-Based Missile Defense System. That’s a Colossally Bad Idea
Executive Director John Tierney and Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle wrote an op-ed for Defense One explaining why the proposed space-based missile defense system is a bad idea. In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan delivered an Oval Office speech to announce his Strategic Defense Initiative — or as it was dubbed by critics, “Star Wars.” […]
Trump obliterates his dishonesty record: 132 false claims last week, 280 for July
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle spoke with the Toronto Star to fact-check President Trump’s claims about missile defense. Claim: “We make the greatest missiles. We have the anti-missile missiles that shoot down missiles many, many miles away in the sky, like a needle in a haystack. They shoot them down, hard to believe. And we’re […]
