Senior Science Fellow Phil Coyle was interviewed by PBS NewsHour about U.S. missile defense. …But Philip Coyle, a senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, gives the program an “F.” The failure rate of missile tests is more like 60 percent since 2002, he said. “It’s not effective, not only because […]
Op-ed: A Nuclear Reckoning: Senators Ponder the President’s Power to Launch Armageddon
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell wrote an op-ed in War on the Rocks explaining the significance of the Nov. 14 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on presidential first use authority. “Congressional hearings happen all the time. If you inadvertently stumble across a C-SPAN channel, you will find any number of relatively unexciting discussions of […]
How Will Trump Change Nuclear Weapons Policy?
Szilard Advisory Board member Jon Wolfsthal wrote a column in Arms Control Today detailing key questions about the forthcoming nuclear posture review and questioning how President Trump will change nuclear weapons policy. “President Donald Trump has made a number of sometimes contradictory comments related to nuclear weapons during his political campaign and since his election. He […]
Able Archer 83: How a Military Exercise Almost Spawned Nuclear War
By Alexandra Crowley Last week marked the 34th anniversary of one of the most alarming moments of the Cold War. In November 1983, NATO allies engaged in a routine communication post-war game referred to as Able Archer 83. However, events leading up to Able Archer led the Soviet Union to believe that NATO was merely […]
Analysis of Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Bill: HR 2810
Download PDF version. Analysis of Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Bill: HR 2810 Treaties: 1. Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty House: Sections 1243 and 1244: Authorizes $25 million to establish a program of record to develop a conventional road-mobile ground-launched cruise missile system that, if tested or deployed, would violate the INF Treaty. Senate: Section […]