Board member Richard Klass was quoted in The Hill. “Retired Col. Richard Klass, a board member at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said the United States would have to send significantly more equipment to South Korea is the North attacked. As such, Klass predicted Kim would feign outrage about the move, but otherwise accept […]
Duck and cover all over again
Policy Analyst James McKeon was cited in Salon. “According to James McKeon, a nuclear weapons analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, our tactical nuclear arsenal today consists of 500 B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs capable of being fitted with warheads as powerful as 340 kilotons all the way down to the less than […]
Prospect of Atmospheric Nuclear Test by North Korea Raises Specter of Danger
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in the New York Times. “The DPRK would be taking a big risk — missile tests fail,” said Philip E. Coyle III, a nuclear scientist and former head of the Pentagon’s weapons testing. The live nuclear warhead could come down on a neighboring country, or if the missile […]
Will Trump’s Reckless Rhetoric Lead to Nuclear War?
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was interviewed by Background Briefing. Coyle offers advice to the current administration: “Remember that we successfully achieved two agreements with North Korea, one to stop their nuclear program, which was effective for several years in 1994… We also reached a separate agreement to stop their long-range missile program… The first […]
Laser Weapons Not Yet Ready for Missile Defense
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in IEEE. Shooting down enemy drones, such as those used by ISIS, with laser-equipped drones requires identifying a target drone’s most vulnerable spots, says Philip Coyle, Senior Science Fellow at The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “Just hitting the fuselage of the drone might not do much damage. […]