Read the full piece in the Associated Press here. Philip E. Coyle, a former head of the Pentagon’s test and evaluation office and a senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Tuesday’s outcome was a significant success for a test that was three years in preparation, but he noted that it […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle III Quoted in the New York Times
Read the full piece here. “Close only counts in horseshoes, not in nuclear war,” said Philip E. Coyle III, a former White House official and former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon who has long faulted the system as unreliable and misleading. If the glancing blow counts as a miss, the system’s failure rate […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in Fox News
Read the full piece here. “It’s not real and it’s something out of a James Bond movie,” says John Tierney, the executive director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. “The general consensus is it’s not a real threat imminent by any stretch of the imagination.” Read the full piece here.
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in the Associated Press
Read the full piece here. “I can’t imagine what they’re going to say if it fails,” said Philip Coyle, senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. He headed the Pentagon’s office of operational test and evaluation from 1994 to 2001 and has closely studied the missile defense system. “These tests are […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in US News and World Report
Read the full piece here. John Tierney, executive director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, says, “any path seems narrow at this point” to stop Trump’s proposed sales, citing the high hurdles of passing legislation in Congress. But Tierney, a former Massachusetts congressman, says he finds it interesting that “so far objections seem […]
