Read the full piece here. “Close only counts in horseshoes, not in nuclear war,” said Philip E. Coyle III, a former White House official and former head of weapons testing at the Pentagon who has long faulted the system as unreliable and misleading. If the glancing blow counts as a miss, the system’s failure rate […]
Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle Quoted in the Associated Press
Read the full piece here. “I can’t imagine what they’re going to say if it fails,” said Philip Coyle, senior science fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. He headed the Pentagon’s office of operational test and evaluation from 1994 to 2001 and has closely studied the missile defense system. “These tests are […]
FY 2018 Defense Budget Request Briefing Book
Click here for a PDF version of the briefing book. The Fiscal Year 2018 Budget in Context Introduction President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget requests $574.5 billion for the Defense Department’s annual “base” discretionary budget, which is $58.4 billion higher than FY 17 levels, and $50.6 billion above last year’s request from President Obama. This […]
New Trump Budget Bolsters Nukes, Cuts Non-Proliferation Programs
President Trump’s budget increases the Pentagon’s budget without accountability, recklessly boosting funds for nuclear weapons while slashing money for non-proliferation programs that work to keep dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hazel Correa hcorrea@armscontrolcenter.org 202.546.0795 x2115 Washington, DC – Experts at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation criticized […]
Fact Sheet: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Total Inventory
The size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has decreased drastically since it peaked at 31,255 nuclear weapons in 1967. Many of the reductions since then have come as the result of bilateral arms control agreements with Russia, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) I, which capped deployed arsenals at 6,000 warheads and 1,600 delivery […]
