Read the full piece in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists here. Put simply, spreading nuclear technology spreads the ability (in whole or in part) to make nuclear weapons, and the institutions created to sever this connection have shown they are not up to the task. Unless this situation is reversed, the problem of turning the recently […]
National Advisory Board Member Amb. Thomas Graham Jr.’s op-ed in Richmond Times-Dispatch
Read the full op-ed in Richmond Times-Dispatch here. On Aug. 5, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a powerful sanctions resolution on North Korea, said to be the strictest imposed on a country in a generation. These new sanctions were in response to North Korea’s reckless actions in testing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Two days […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in BBC News
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 […]
