Executive Director John Tierney wrote an op-ed in The Hill urging his former colleagues in Congress not to fund an expensive expansion to missile defense without first proving that it works. The Trump Administration’s new missile defense plan could require taxpayers to foot the bill for a new nuclear arms race. It has been the […]
In the News: President Trump Nominates No. 2 Position at NNSA
President Donald Trump nominated former Brookhaven National Laboratory lab assistant policy and planning director William Bookless for a second time to fill the number two spot at the National Nuclear Security Administration. No Congressional hearing has been scheduled.
Front and Center: January 20, 2019
Trump Administration Releases Missile Defense Review On Thursday, the Trump Administration released its long-awaited Missile Defense Review (MDR), the guiding document for the administration’s plan for the systems that, among other things, are supposed to protect the United States from incoming nuclear missiles. As Executive Director John Tierney explains, the MDR lays the groundwork […]
Trump’s Missile Defense Plan Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Executive Director John Tierney was quoted in WIRED Magazine discussing the Trump Administration’s Missile Defense Review. “The main significance of the review is that it changes the program from a limited, regional defense system to an unlimited, global defense system. That is simple to say—it is impossible to do,” says John Tierney, the executive director […]
Trump pledges to devise system to down missiles launched at U.S. ‘anywhere, anytime, anyplace’
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell spoke with the Washington Post about the Trump Administration’s new Missile Defense Review. Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said the report looked to “lay the groundwork for vastly expanded missile defenses targeted beyond ‘rogue’ states” — an approach, she said, that risked “voluntarily walking […]
