Read the full piece in The Cipher Brief here. North Korea’s July intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests have crossed a new capability threshold, allowing Pyongyang to potentially reach the continental United States. Further, U.S. intelligence estimates predict that North Korea now possesses the technology to miniaturize a nuclear warhead and place it on an ICBM. […]
Board Member Dr. Jim Walsh’s Op-Ed in Al Jazeera
Read the full op-ed in Al Jazeera here. This week, the United States and its ally South Korea began large-scale military exercises, and North Korea responded by threatening “merciless retaliation”. This follows Pyongyang’s recent back-and-forth over whether to strike Guam and President Trump’s warning that North Korea was facing a future of “fire and fury”. […]
National Advisory Board Member Leonard Weiss’ Article Published in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
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 […]
