Programs Assistant Erin Connolly co-wrote an op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist with former Scoville Fellow Kate Hewitt about their mission to educate high school students about nuclear weapons policy. “How many countries have nuclear weapons?” we asked. Students shouted out answers: one, seven, 34, all of the countries in the world. “Which […]
Revealed: Pentagon Push to Hack Nuke Missiles Before They Launch
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke to the DailyBeast about a Pentagon plan to hack other countries’ missiles. Former State Department nonproliferation official Alexandra Bell called the Pentagon plan an “exercise to legally justify a potential attack on a North Korean missile on the launchpad.” “This looks to me like a very elaborate legal justification […]
Op-ed: Mushroom Clouds Beneath the Surface: The Dangers of a Return to Nuclear Testing
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle and Policy Analyst James McKeon wrote an op-ed on the potential return to nuclear testing for War on the Rocks. Year after year, the heads of U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories have assessed that the U.S. stockpile is reliable, and that resuming explosive nuclear testing is unnecessary. In fact, the Stockpile […]
Will the US Be Able to Stop Russia’s New Arsenal of Missile Defense-Piercing Nukes?
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle spoke with LiveScience about Russia’s latest nuclear missile boasting. “It was not surprising,” said Philip Coyle, a nuclear weapons expert who worked for the Carter, Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations in various capacities related to nuclear policy and is now Senior Science Fellow at the Center for Arms Control […]
Fiscal Year 2019 Defense Spending Briefing Book
The Fiscal Year 2019 Budget in Context Introduction President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget requests $617.1 billion for the Defense Department’s annual “base” discretionary budget, which is more than $90 billion higher than FY 18 enacted levels. This amount does not include certain other security spending, including funding for nuclear weapons-related work in […]
