To download a PDF version, click here. A. Treaties: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty House: Sections 1243 and 1244: Authorizes $25 million to establish a program of record to develop a conventional road-mobile ground-launched cruise missile system that, if tested or deployed, would violate the INF Treaty. Senate: Section 1635: Authorizes $65 million to establish […]
Donald Trump’s Dangerous North Korea Gambit
Szilard Advisory Board Member Jon Wolfsthal was quoted in WIRED. “My perception, based on 30 years of work on this, is that North Korea is paranoid that the United States is going to eliminate them,” says Jon Wolfsthal, a member of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Szilard Advisory Board, and former special advisor […]
Mattis: Use of tactical nuclear weapons discussed with South Korea
Policy Analyst James McKeon was cited in The Military Times. “However, it’s not the size that determines their tactical or strategic status, McKeon said. The bombs are tactical ― and not governed by the 2010 new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START treaty ― if they are delivered on a tactical aircraft, such as an F-16 or […]
No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea’s Missiles
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle was quoted in Defense One. “The success rate of the GMD systems in flight intercept tests has been dismal,” says former director of operational testing for the Pentagon, Philip Coyle. Read the full piece here.
US scrambles for response to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions
Center Board Member Colonel Klass was quoted in The Hill. Short of starting a trade war by sanctioning China, retired Col. Richard Klass said he doesn’t think there’s a way to pressure China to support the type of blockade that would have an effect on North Korea. “He knows we’re not going to launch a […]
