The Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) (also known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty) is a multilateral treaty banning explosive nuclear testing or “other nuclear explosions” in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater. The treaty only permits underground nuclear testing if the test does not cause radioactive debris to be present outside the jurisdiction of […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Sputnik News
Read the full piece here. “The failure in flight-intercept tests is all the more surprising, because these tests are highly scripted to achieve success. If these tests were planned to fool US defenses, as a real enemy would do, the failure rate would be even worse,” said Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation senior science […]
FY 2017 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
Click here for a printable PDF version. This week, Congress will consider the Fiscal Year 2017 Omnibus Appropriations Bill negotiated laboriously over many months by House and Senate leadership and by Republicans and Democrats on both Appropriations Committees. The bill is expected to pass easily this week with support from Members of Congress from both […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in Live Science
Read the full piece here. From the earliest uses in 1959 of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is designed to deliver nuclear weapons, the U.S. has been working on methods that would protect people from such an attack. Yet decades later, the country still has only a flawed system that most experts believe would […]
Executive Director John Tierney Quoted in Huffington Post
Read the full piece here. Former Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.), executive director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation “To date, President Trump’s nuclear policy can only be described as consistently inconsistent. After 100 days with the nuclear codes, it’s still not clear that the president understands the complexity of the nuclear threats facing the […]
