Read the full piece in KTOO News here. Philip Coyle is skeptical the ground-base missile defense system can reliably do the job. “I’m not very confident. Not very confident at all,” Coyle said. Coyle is a former assistant defense secretary who was in charge of operational testing and evaluation at the Pentagon. He’s now a […]
Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell Quoted in Defense News
Read the full piece in Defense News here. The senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Alexandra Bell, called Trump’s claims “a total lie” in her own tweet. “Modernization plans for nuclear arsenal were well underway before [Trump] came into office & his own budget isn’t passed yet,” she said in […]
Board Member Richard Klass Quoted in The Hill
Read the full piece in The Hill here. Richard Klass, a retired Air Force colonel now on the board of the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, said Wednesday morning mixed messages from the administration are an indication that the administration still lacks key personnel and a rigorous interagency review process. “There’s no process for […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Reuters
Read the full piece in Reuters here. Phil Coyle, a former head of testing and evaluation at the Pentagon who has also reviewed the publicly available test data, said that instead of using decoys meant to look and act identical to the dummy nuclear warhead, the decoys looked like “specks of sand” compared to the […]
CACNP Quoted in CBS News
Read the full piece in CBS News here. Observation flights by member countries are allowed over the entire territory of other member states. States have to provide 72 hours’ advance notice of their flyover plans, but the host country, under the treaty, may not restrict access to any part of its territory except for safety […]
