When the Cold War ended, four separate countries suddenly inherited the former Soviet nuclear arsenal. Destroying and removing those weapons was a herculean effort, and it couldn’t have been done without the bipartisan leadership of two U.S. Senators. We tell the story with Senators Nunn and Lugar, as well as former Assistant Secretary of Defense […]
Op-ed: Save the INF Treaty—but not by repeating history
Scoville Fellow Bernadette Stadler and NAB Member Ambassador Graham penned an op-ed in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “But even if the United States retraced all the steps it took during the initial INF Treaty negotiations—including the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe—it could not recreate the underlying conditions that allowed the negotiations to […]
Trump review leans toward proposing mini-nuke
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle and Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell were quoted in Politico. “It is difficult to imagine the circumstances under which we would need a military option in between our formidable conventional capabilities and our current low-yield nuclear weapons capabilities,” added Alexandra Bell, a former State Department arms control official. “Lawmakers should […]
EXPERTS AVAILABLE: NORTH KOREA MISSILE OR NUCLEAR TEST
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE James McKeon jmckeon@armscontrolcenter.org 814-460-6943 Saturday, September 9 marks the founding of North Korea and is celebrated as a major holiday in the country. In 2016, the North Koreans tested their fifth nuclear device on this date. Experts and analysts strongly believe that September 9, 2017 will produce a major new North Korean […]
Can North Korea target a U.S. city? Experts say not yet
Center Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in USA Today. “I don’t think time is on our side here at all,” said Philip Coyle, an analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, who remains skeptical that North Korea can currently target U.S. cities with large payloads. “Are they there now? I don’t […]