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  • Report Critiques U.S. Missile Defense
    Arms Control Today
    October 2, 2012

    Arguing that the U.S.-based ballistic missile interceptor system is “very expensive” but has “limited effectiveness” against potential attacks from Iran, a September report by the independent National Research Council recommends replacing the current system with a revamped but largely similar system and expanding it by adding a new site in an East Coast state.
  • NATO Fields Interceptors Without Russia
    Arms Control Today
    May 31, 2012

    NATO now has an “interim capability” for its U.S.-built missile interceptor system, the alliance announced at its May 20-21 summit in Chicago, but the future of NATO-Russian cooperation on missile defense remains uncertain.
  • ACA Senior Fellow speaks at Brookings on Missile Defense
    ACA Events
    May 22, 2012

    Prepared remarks by ACA Senior Fellow Greg Thielmann at Brookings on May 17, 2012 on "Missile Defense: Cooperation or Contention?  Ballistic Missile Threats to NATO and U.S. Response."
  • Experts Available to Comment on NATO Nuclear Policy Review, Tactical Nuclear Arms Control
    Press Room
    May 14, 2012

    (Washington, D.C.) At the May 20-21 NATO summit in Chicago, the alliance is expected to approve and release its Deterrence and Defense Posture Review (DDPR) report. The DDPR was launched following the previous NATO summit to determine the proper mix of nuclear, conventional and missile defense assets for the alliance.
  • Reports Raise Missile Defense Concerns
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2012

    As the Obama administration moves ahead with its missile defense plans in Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region, questions are being raised about the military effectiveness of planned missile interceptors and sensors, such as the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) system deployed on Navy ships.
  • U.S. Pushes Missile Defense in Mideast
    Arms Control Today
    May 2, 2012

    As part of a broader U.S. effort to focus on Middle Eastern security, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said March 31 that “it is a U.S. priority” to help Persian Gulf states build regional missile interceptor systems to counter missiles from Iran.
  • NATO to Declare Missile System Ready
    Arms Control Today
    April 3, 2012

    NATO allies plan to announce at their May 20-21 summit in Chicago that the European missile interceptor system has reached an “interim capability,” a senior U.S. official said on March 26.
  • U.S. Missile Defense Programs at a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    April 2, 2012

    February 2013
  • Op-Ed: U.S. should cut nuclear stockpile
    Press Room
    March 29, 2012

    This week at an international nuclear security summit in South Korea, President Barack Obama's private request to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for "space" on his proposal for cooperation on missile defense was overheard from a live microphone and grabbed the headlines.
  • Reality Check: Nuclear Weapons Spending and New START
    Issue Briefs
    March 19, 2012

    Volume 3, Issue 4, March 19, 2012

    In recent weeks, a handful of Congressional Republicans have charged that the Obama administration and the Defense Department are failing to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal and weapons production complex "as promised" in 2010 during consideration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).