Read the full piece in The Hill here. The most worrying thing about the current fight between President Trump and the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK) is that it is just that. Normally the dispute would be between the DPRK and an American administration. But there is no Trump administration. To have an administration, […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in LA Times
Read the full piece in the LA Times here. Philip E. Coyle III, a retired nuclear weapons design executive for the Energy Department and a former senior Pentagon official, said North Korea’s two-stage Hwasong-14 missile, which flew 45 minutes and reached an altitude of 1,850 miles in space in late July, is significantly smaller than […]
THAAD: A Band-Aid for Potential Bullet Wounds
On July 30, 2017, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced it conducted a successful test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The test came in the wake of another successful test of THAAD held just weeks before, and after reports that the South Korean government will proceed with further deployment of the […]
Front and Center: August 12
NUKES OF HAZARD PODCAST: The Once and Future Framework In 1994, the United States negotiated an agreement with North Korea that curbed its nuclear ambitions for eight years. The collapse of the agreement offers lessons for diplomatic efforts today. Amidst heated rhetoric between President Trump and North Korean leadership, this episode dives into the agreement […]
Board Member Richard Klass Quoted in The Hill
Read the full piece in The Hill here. “Kim needs to understand that he needs to give Trump a way down, and Trump needs to understand that he needs to give Kim a way down,” said retired Air Force Col. Richard Klass, now on the board of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. “I […]