Read the full piece here. “The budget as proposed is not going to pass ‘as is,’ since it is unrealistic and will not get enough support in Congress,” said John Tierney, who represented Massachusetts’s sixth congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1997 until 2015. He is now executive director of the Council for […]
Executive Director John Tierney’s Op-Ed in The National Interest
Read the full piece in The National Interest. The Pentagon’s financial practices breed inefficiency, lack accountability, and would never be accepted in a corporate boardroom. President Trump’s focus on wasteful Pentagon programs is a positive step, but his calls for more funding without preconditions will only increase the federal debt without improving national security whatsoever. […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip E. Coyle Quoted in LA Times
Read the full piece in the LA Times. Former Assistant Defense Secretary Philip E. Coyle III, who led the Pentagon’s office of operational testing and evaluation for six years, said the January 2016 test failure was cause for serious concern about GMD’s reliability. “If the circuitry caused a failure, that’s a bad thing,” Coyle said. […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in Digital Journal
Read the full piece in the Digital Journal. The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation said in a press release: “President Trump’s assertions about nuclear weapons policy conveniently ignore the facts,” former Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), the executive director of the center, said in a statement. “Every world leader on Earth except for President Trump […]
Center Policy Analyst Greg Terryn Quoted in Foxtrot Alpha
Read the full piece in Foxtrot Alpha. “I can’t imagine anyone in our country or any other country who doesn’t think we’re at the top of the pack right now,” Greg Terryn, a policy analyst at The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, told Foxtrot Alpha. “We have one of the most expansive [arsenals]. We […]