Updated January 2025 The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral agreement that prohibits the explosive testing of nuclear weapons. The CTBT opened for signatures on September 24, 1996, but the agreement is still in the ratification stage. The United States has signed, but has not yet ratified the treaty. The United States conducted […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle’s Interview in La Presse Canada
Read the original interview in French here. For an English translation, click here. President Trump’s willingness to “increase” U.S. nuclear capabilities and the suggestion of being able to use them is a “disturbing” 180 degree turn with respect to the policies of his predecessors, says Philip E. Coyle, former director Associate of the Office of Science and […]
National Advisory Board Member Sen. Byron Dorgan’s op-ed in Defense One
Read the full op-ed here. Our two countries still work together on a few things. Securing dangerous nuclear materials should be one of them. Thanks to disputes over Ukraine, Syria, and elsewhere, the United States and Russia — the two countries that hold the vast majority of worldwide fissile material — have ceased nearly all cooperation that […]
Executive Director John Tierney quoted in Teen Vogue
Read the full piece here. “Terrorists are working every day to try to get their hands on weapons-grade materials that they could use in a bomb,” John Tierney, executive director at the Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization “dedicated to enhancing peace and security” through policy analysis and research, tells Teen […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle quoted in Science Magazine
Read the full piece here. Although the analysis cites few government sources, it is solid, says Philip E. Coyle III, a former Pentagon weapons test director now at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation in Washington, D.C. Read the full piece here.
