Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in Defense One. “The success rate of the GMD systems in flight intercept tests has been dismal,” says former director of operational testing for the Pentagon, Philip Coyle. Read the full piece here.
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle’s Interview in The Cipher Brief
Read the full piece in The Cipher Brief here. North Korea’s July intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests have crossed a new capability threshold, allowing Pyongyang to potentially reach the continental United States. Further, U.S. intelligence estimates predict that North Korea now possesses the technology to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and place it on an ICBM. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in LA Times
Read the full piece in the LA Times here. Philip E. Coyle III, a retired nuclear weapons design executive for the Energy Department and a former senior Pentagon official, said North Korea’s two-stage Hwasong-14 missile, which flew 45 minutes and reached an altitude of 1,850 miles in space in late July, is significantly smaller than […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in KTOO News
Read the full piece in KTOO News here. Philip Coyle is skeptical the ground-base missile defense system can reliably do the job. “I’m not very confident. Not very confident at all,” Coyle said. Coyle is a former assistant defense secretary who was in charge of operational testing and evaluation at the Pentagon. He’s now a […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Reuters
Read the full piece in Reuters here. Phil Coyle, a former head of testing and evaluation at the Pentagon who has also reviewed the publicly available test data, said that instead of using decoys meant to look and act identical to the dummy nuclear warhead, the decoys looked like “specks of sand” compared to the […]