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October 13, 2017

Trump’s claim that a U.S. interceptor can knock out ICBMs ’97 percent of the time’

Senior Policy Director Alexandra Bell was quoted in The Washington Post regarding President Trump’s claims of missile defense success. 

“We have missiles that can knock out a missile in the air 97 percent of the time, and if you send two of them, it’s going to get knocked down.”
— President Trump, interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Oct. 11, 2017

“The confidence with which [Trump] made the statement indicates a lack of understanding of the complexities or perhaps a lack of interest in those complexities,” said Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Read more

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