Read the full op-ed here. Our two countries still work together on a few things. Securing dangerous nuclear materials should be one of them. Thanks to disputes over Ukraine, Syria, and elsewhere, the United States and Russia — the two countries that hold the vast majority of worldwide fissile material — have ceased nearly all cooperation that […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle quoted in Science Magazine
Read the full piece here. Although the analysis cites few government sources, it is solid, says Philip E. Coyle III, a former Pentagon weapons test director now at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation in Washington, D.C. Read the full piece here.
Analysis of President Trump’s Proposed FY 2018 Pentagon Budget
Click here for a PDF version. The Fiscal 2018 budget outline presented by the Trump Administration includes a Pentagon spending request that is unlikely to please many members of Congress. Some will contend that the $52 billion increase to the Department of Defense compared to current FY 2017 levels is too low, while others will […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle’s interview in New York Magazine
Read the full interview here. Atomic-weapons expert Philip Coyle was the head of nuclear-weapons testing under President Bill Clinton and an adviser to the Carter and Obama administrations. And as a scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California, he spent 30 years helping design both nuclear arms and the only anti-missile weapon ever […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle and Policy Analyst James McKeon’s op-ed in POLITICO
Read the full piece here. It’s been called the most dangerous nuclear weapon in America’s arsenal. Not the biggest – that distinction goes to the 1.2-megaton B83 bomb – but a weapon whose precision makes it the most likely to be used in an actual war. It’s called the B61 gravity bomb, built to be […]
