Read the full piece here. “These missiles are highly destabilizing, they’re capable of reaching Moscow within 15 minutes,” Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official who is senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said. “Withdrawing from the INF Treaty would be a terrible mistake.” Instead, the U.S. should first pursue […]
National Advisory Board Member Thomas Graham Jr.’s Op-Ed in U.S. News and World Report
Read the full piece here. The great Cold Warrior and international negotiator Ambassador Paul Nitze once said to me “Whenever I enter one of these negotiations (U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms negotiations) I try to imagine the narrow strip where both sides can stand comfortably. Then I try to steer U.S. policy toward that place.” That is […]
Board Member Dr. Jim Walsh Quoted in The Atlantic
Read the full piece here. Jim Walsh is a senior research associate at the MIT Security Studies Program and a board member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. I talked with him this spring, as tensions between North Korea and the U.S. escalated. “I had a friend who just returned from Seoul, where […]
Center Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Foxtrot Alpha
Read the full piece here. What Is A Maneuverable Hypersonic Weapon? Let’s get the language down first. You’ll see a lot of publications describe hypersonic missiles without qualifying it with the term “maneuverable” or “guided.” But that’s actually what makes them such a game changer, Dr. Phillip Coyle, the Senior Science Fellow is Senior Science […]
The Day After a Nuclear War
Download the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher or SoundCloud. In 1983, a movie was released about nuclear war that shocked 100 million Americans. This episode dives into the movie and how it impacted President Reagan to change his views on nuclear weapons policy. Washington Post Reporter Dan Zak is also interviewed about his book […]