Policy Intern (202) 546-0795 x 2117 jwalsh@armscontrolcenter.org John Walsh is an intern at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation working on non-proliferation policy. He graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea with a BA in Political Science and International Relations in 2016. He is currently an MA student in the Strategic Studies concentration at […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in US News and World Report
Read the full piece here. John Tierney, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, says, “any path seems narrow at this point” to stop Trump’s proposed sales, citing the high hurdles of passing legislation in Congress. But Tierney, a former Massachusetts congressman, says he finds it interesting that “so far objections seem […]
FY 2018 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book
Click here for a PDF version of the briefing book. The Fiscal Year 2018 Budget in Context Introduction President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget requests $574.5 billion for the Defense Department’s annual “base” discretionary budget, which is $58.4 billion higher than FY 17 levels, and $50.6 billion above last year’s request from President Obama. This […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: NNSA’s FY18 Budget Request
Blog: All Things Nuclear On Tuesday, May 23, the Trump administration released its Fiscal Year 2018 (FY2018) budget request. In an overall federal budget where many, many programs faced severe budget cuts, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is on the receiving end of a proposed 11 percent budget increase (at least by the Trump […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in The Washington Post
Read the full piece here. “If the president of the United States devises policy dealing with North Korea based on a system he believes will protect the U.S. from a missile attack from North Korea, he is operating on false information,” said Philip Coyle, who was an assistant secretary of defense and director of operational […]
