Read the full piece in WJLA here. “It was clear that they were moving in the direction of a long-range missile capability,” said Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation. “That is and has been their goal.” So far, the Trump administration has responded to the missile test with […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in The Hill
Read the full piece in The Hill here. “They’re going to build more and more offensive missiles to overwhelm our systems, which is the opposite of what we want them to do,” said Philip Coyle, a former Pentagon weapons tester who is now a senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in POLITICO
Read the full piece in POLITICO here. “Partly we are failing because it is the hardest thing the Pentagon has tried to do,” said Phil Coyle, who served as the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester in the Clinton administration and in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Obama administration. “We’ve had […]
Front and Center Newsletter: July 1
NUKES OF HAZARD PODCAST: The Cloud of Nuclear Winter In 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear weapon in history. At about 3,800 times more powerful than the bombs used against Japan, the effects were unimaginable. This episode dives into this, and other harrowing stories of nuclear testing, and includes an interview with Dr. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Financial Times
Read the full piece in the Financial Times here. “The problem is that any enemy that believes the system really worked would just build more offensive missiles,” said Philip Coyle, former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon, saying that is “exactly the opposite of what we want”. He said missile defence systems have erroneously […]
