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 […]
Board Member Dr. Jim Walsh’s Op-Ed in Axios
Read the full piece in Axios here. How does the threat posed by North Korea end? There are many “hard landing” scenarios. War. Regime collapse. A premature exit by Kim Jong Un that leads to a military junta or another family member taking over. There aren’t many “soft landings” except for maybe the “China model,” […]
Amb. Thomas Graham and Bernadette Stadler’s Op-Ed in POLITICO
Read the full piece in POLITICO here. On May 30, after years of planning, the Department of Defense intercepted a mock intercontinental ballistic missile, the first successful test of its ground-based program against an ICBM-range target. Top Pentagon officials hailed the test, with Vice Adm. Jim Syring, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, calling […]
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell Quoted in POLITICO
Read the full piece here. “These missiles are highly destabilizing, they’re capable of reaching Moscow within 15 minutes,” Alexandra Bell, a former State Department official who is senior policy director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said. “Withdrawing from the INF Treaty would be a terrible mistake.” Instead, the U.S. should first pursue […]
National Advisory Board Member Thomas Graham Jr.’s Op-Ed in U.S. News and World Report
Read the full piece here. The great Cold Warrior and international negotiator Ambassador Paul Nitze once said to me “Whenever I enter one of these negotiations (U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms negotiations) I try to imagine the narrow strip where both sides can stand comfortably. Then I try to steer U.S. policy toward that place.” That is […]
