Read the full piece here. Phillip Coyle, the Senior Science Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told me some of the valuable metals, such as the copper and gold, are recycled. The toughest issue comes with the high explosive components, which are burned and the resulting ashes are shipped to an EPA-approved […]
Congressman Ted Lieu on Nuclear First-Strike
Download the podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher or SoundCloud. One single person has the sole authority to launch U.S. nuclear weapons: The President of the United States. We spoke with Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) about his bill that would limit presidential nuclear authority. Our analysts also discuss the latest North Korean ballistic missile test […]
Fact Sheet: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Total Inventory
The size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has decreased drastically since it peaked at 31,255 nuclear weapons in 1967. Many of the reductions since then have come as the result of bilateral arms control agreements with Russia, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I, which capped deployed arsenals at 6,000 warheads and 1,600 delivery […]
CBS Sacramento Writes About Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle
Read the full piece here. A Sacramento man is getting lots of questions about North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. Philip Coyle is a former U.S. weapons tester who retired in Sacramento. Coyle was in charge of the last U.S. nuclear test recorded in 1971. He’s suddenly been getting lots of calls. “It actually started right […]
Fact Sheet: The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT)
The Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, commonly known as the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT), is a bilateral agreement between the United States and Soviet Union (now Russia). Signed in 1974, the Treaty prohibits underground nuclear weapons tests greater than 150 kilotons, approximately 10 times larger than the bomb used against […]
