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 […]
DOD now treating missile defense flight test plans — once public — as classified
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in Inside Defense. Philip Coyle, senior fellow with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and the Pentagon’s top weapons tester from 1994 to 2001, called the claim that DOD needs to safeguard information about planned ballistic missile defense tests “ridiculous,” noting the MDA test schedule was […]
What ever happened to the argument for nuclear disarmament?
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was quoted in Mic about public attitude toward nuclear weapons and nuclear war. For decades, “in fits and starts,” U.S. administrations sought to move away from nuclear weapons. The nuclear policy community kept hammering away to drastically reduce global stockpiles. But, according to Bell, the issue gradually drifted from the attention of the […]
New pathogen research rules: Gain of function, loss of clarity
Lynn Klotz and Greg Koblentz, two members of our Scientists Working Group, wrote an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on new pathogen research rules. In December 2017, after six years of debate and discussion, the United States government closed a chapter—though perhaps not the book—on one of the most controversial experiments in […]
Ohio base could become America’s first defense against incoming missiles
Policy analyst James McKeon was quoted in the Columbus Dispatch. James McKeon, with the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said an East Coast site would primarily protect the U.S. from missiles coming from Iran, not North Korea. Missiles aren’t typically shot east to west; instead, they head north before coming south, he said. […]
