Read the full piece in Defense News here. The senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Alexandra Bell, called Trump’s claims “a total lie” in her own tweet. “Modernization plans for nuclear arsenal were well underway before [Trump] came into office & his own budget isn’t passed yet,” she said in […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Reuters
Read the full piece in Reuters here. Phil Coyle, a former head of testing and evaluation at the Pentagon who has also reviewed the publicly available test data, said that instead of using decoys meant to look and act identical to the dummy nuclear warhead, the decoys looked like “specks of sand” compared to the […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in Salem News
Read the full piece in Salem News here. In heading up a nuclear nonproliferation think tank in Washington, D.C., former Sixth District Congressman John Tierney stands on the front lines of President Donald Trump’s blunderbuss pronouncements at North Korea, statements some fear could lead to a nuclear showdown or a show of empty rhetoric. “You […]
Executive Director John Tierney Interviewed on BBC Radio 5
Listen to the full episode on BBC Radio 5 here. (Starting at 2:14:35) Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Executive Director John Tierney joined BBC Radio 5 to discuss escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea. Tierney reiterated that the United States and Russia posses over 90% of the world’s nuclear arsenal, and […]
Policy Analyst James McKeon Quoted in Washington Post
Read the full piece in the Washington Post here. The Air Force routinely tests for the reliability of aging Minuteman III missiles, said James McKeon, a nuclear weapons analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a Washington think tank. The program is more than 50 years old but has gone through rounds of […]
