Read the full BBC News article here. The Tu-95 bombers built to carry the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons were designed to carry much lighter weapons. The Tsar Bomba was so big that it couldn’t be placed on a missile, and so heavy that the planes designed to carry it wouldn’t have been able to take […]
Col. Richard Klass’ op-ed in The Hill
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 […]
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 […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in WIRED
Read the full piece in WIRED here. Two issues intertwine when Trump spouts off nuclear weapons without much strategic thought: escalation and credibility, both of which seem to be heading in the wrong direction. “A lie is a lie, and he’s proven to be the master of lies. But we’re not playing tiddlywinks here,” says […]
