Senior Science Fellow Phil Coyle was quoted in Wired explaining why the distance achieved in North Korea’s Nov. 28 missile test isn’t the only factor in determining the targets it can hit.
“I think that their payload is probably quite small, maybe just some diagnostics instruments to help them know what happened,” says Philip Coyle, senior fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and former head of the Pentagon’s test and evaluation office, about Tuesday’s launch. “But a real nuclear weapon, especially one that North Korea might have, could be big and heavy.” Read more
