Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle spoke with the Toronto Star to fact-check President Trump’s claims about missile defense. Claim: “We make the greatest missiles. We have the anti-missile missiles that shoot down missiles many, many miles away in the sky, like a needle in a haystack. They shoot them down, hard to believe. And we’re […]
July recap: United States
By Luisa Kenausis, Scoville Fellow Each week, we review the news that might have gotten missed in other nuclear headlines. Here’s a recap of what happened in July. Pentagon & Defense Spending U.S. Air Force conducts non-nuclear drop tests of B61-12 gravity bomb from B-2A stealth bomber On June 29, a press release by the […]
Summary: FY 2019 Senate Defense Appropriations Bill (S.3159)
Top Line A. Total Appropriations[1] Total discretionary funding: $668.0 billion (an increase of $15.6 billion from FY 2018) Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO): $67.9 billion (included in $668.0 billion) B. Major categories of spending Title I—Military Personnel: $139.3 billion Title II—Operation and Maintenance: $194.0 billion Title III—Procurement: $135.2 billion Title IV—Research, development, test and evaluation: $95.1 […]
Broken Arrow News: Week of July 30
By Luisa Kenausis, Scoville Fellow In U.S. military lingo, a “broken arrow” refers to a incident involving the loss of a nuclear weapon. Here, we’re bringing you the nuclear weapons news that’s been ‘lost’ in the last week. United States Admiral in charge of nuclear weapons targeting: United States may face “strategic disadvantage” without multilateral […]
Broken Arrow News July Recap: Japan, Russia, India & Israel
By Luisa Kenausis, Scoville Fellow In U.S. military lingo, a “broken arrow” refers to a incident involving the loss of a nuclear weapon. Here, we’re bringing you the nuclear weapons news that’s been ‘lost.’ Japan Japan’s new energy plan sets ambitious nuclear goals, includes plutonium recycling—but may be impractical On Tuesday, July 3, Japan’s Cabinet […]
