Read the full interview here. Atomic-weapons expert Philip Coyle was the head of nuclear-weapons testing under President Bill Clinton and an adviser to the Carter and Obama administrations. And as a scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California, he spent 30 years helping design both nuclear arms and the only anti-missile weapon ever […]
Executive Director John Tierney quoted in CNN
Read the full piece here. “North Korea is currently firing missile all over the country while South Korea and the US are conducting a series of joint exercises,” said John Tierney, the executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “And both claim they are doing so pre-emptively, so it’s a very tense […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle and Policy Analyst James McKeon’s op-ed in POLITICO
Read the full piece here. It’s been called the most dangerous nuclear weapon in America’s arsenal. Not the biggest – that distinction goes to the 1.2-megaton B83 bomb – but a weapon whose precision makes it the most likely to be used in an actual war. It’s called the B61 gravity bomb, built to be […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle quoted in Net Nebraska
Read the full piece here. Philip Coyle, who was associate director for national security and international affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Barack Obama, likened China’s protest to Russia’s objection to U.S. missile interceptors in Romania and Poland. “Russian President Vladimir Putin hates U.S. missile defenses in Europe […]
Center Contributor Dr. Jim Walsh’s interview in The Cipher Brief
Read the full interview here. In the span of one week we have seen North Korea test four missiles, evidence of U.S. attempts to sabotage North Korea’s missile program with cyber capabilities, the deployment of the controversial THAAD missile defense system to South Korea, and China proposing that the U.S. give up joint military drills […]
