What’s News: A False Sense of Security Many senior U.S. officials claim that North Korean missiles will not get through U.S. missile defenses. However, all available evidence suggests that such claims are simply untrue. For details, read Center Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle and Policy Analyst James McKeon’s op-ed in U.S. News and World Report. Click here. […]

Nukes of Hazard Podcast: Goldsboro and the Nuclear News The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation has launched a brand new podcast – Nukes of Hazard. It’s a 15-minute bi-weekly roundup of the most important nuclear news and some lesser known stories on weapons of mass destruction history. To download the inaugural podcast, click here. Press Release: […]

What’s News: U.S. Missile Attack on Syria: What We Know and Don’t Know President Trump ordered a barrage of missiles to strike an airfield in Syria on Thursday evening in response to the use of chemical weapons by the president of Syria. To read a New York Times summary of the key knowns and unknowns […]

What’s News: US Builds Missile Defense System for South Korea, Causing More Tension Does deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system protect South Korea from North Korean aggression? Senior Science Fellow Philip Coyle and Center Scoville Fellow Bernadette Stadler penned an op-ed in The Hill that argues the benefits of the system are […]