Updated March 2021 The Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union that limited the number of ground-based anti-ballistic missile systems and sites that each side could have. Both parties also agreed not to develop sea-based, air-based, or space-based ABM systems. After the fall of the Soviet Union, […]
Syria’s Chemical Weapons With Mallory Stewart
Download the podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, or Google Play. In this episode, former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance Mallory Stewart talks about Syria’s chemical weapons program and the steps the U.S. government have taken to deter future chemical weapons attacks by the Assad regime. To listen to other podcast […]
CBS Sacramento Writes About Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle
Read the full piece here. A Sacramento man is getting lots of questions about North Korea’s nuclear weapons threat. Philip Coyle is a former U.S. weapons tester who retired in Sacramento. Coyle was in charge of the last U.S. nuclear test recorded in 1971. He’s suddenly been getting lots of calls. “It actually started right […]
Center’s Scoville Fellow Bernadette Stadler’s Op-Ed in Defense One
Read the full piece here. Skeptics of negotiating with North Korea, including on some days the Trump administration, often point to the breakdown of the Agreed Framework as proof that diplomacy doesn’t work. In doing so, they overlook several key facts, including that the agreement succeeded for eight years and that the United States was partially responsible for its […]
Fact Sheet: The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT)
The Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, commonly known as the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT), is a bilateral agreement between the United States and Soviet Union (now Russia). Signed in 1974, the Treaty prohibits underground nuclear weapons tests greater than 150 kilotons, approximately 10 times larger than the bomb used against […]