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 […]
North Korea: What exactly is a H-bomb, and has the reclusive country joined the thermonuclear club?
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in ABC News (Australia). “It shows that they’re making progress very fast on their nuclear weapons,” said Dr Philip Coyle from the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington. “As we see similarly with their rocket tests — they’ve done about 84 tests since Kim Jong-un became […]
