Missiles & Space

North Korea's missile flight a failure

North Korea’s effort to fire a satellite into orbit failed, according to experts. From a technical standpoint, the failure would likely seriously delay the missile’s debut. “It’s got to be embarrassing,” said Ploughshares grantee Geoffrey Forden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “I can imagine heads flying if the ‘Dear Leader’ finds out the satellite didn’t fly into orbit.”

April 5, 2009 - By Sarah Brown
North Korean launch not cause for panic

by Joseph Cirincione

North Korea's thinly disguised missile test violates U.N. resolutions and should be condemned. But it is not a serious threat to the United States, nor does it justify a crash program to deploy an expensive, unproven anti-missile system.

April 5, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione
International Outcry over North Korean Missile Launch

Experts from around the world, including many leading Ploughshares Fund grantees, condemned the launch yesterday of what is believed to be North Korea's long-range Taepo Dong-2 rocket satellite carrier. The Arms Control Asso

April 5, 2009 - By Deborah Bain
Obama's Forthcoming Nuclear Policy Speech

by Joseph Cirincione

This is the nuclear policy speech we have been waiting for.

President Obama will make a landmark nuclear policy speech in Prague this Sunday April 5th.

April 3, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione
David Albright discusses North Korean launch on MSNBC

As North Korea fuels its long-range missile in preparation for launch, David Albright of the Ploughshares-funded Institute for Science and International Security discussed the possibilities of the laun

April 2, 2009 - By Sarah Brown
New space security database released

The United States spends billions on military space programs each year, spread out over the military services as well as myriad offices and agencies, yet there is no central authority for tracking defense-related space spending.

April 2, 2009 - By Sarah Brown
CNN: Pending North Korea missile launch

April 2, 2009 - By Ploughshares Fund
Pressing the nuclear reset button

Presidents Obama and Medvedev have the opportunity to reset the U.S.-Russian relationship with a new and far-reaching nuclear arms reduction treaty, according to Daryl Kimball of the Ploughshares-funded Arms Con

April 1, 2009 - By Sarah Brown
New satellite imagery of missile site in North Korea

UPDATE: Today, the Ploughshares-funded Institute for Science and International Security reports that satellite imagery shows a North Korean rocket slated for launch next month can be clearly

March 30, 2009 - By Sarah Brown
North Korea launch threatens disarmament talks

North Korea's plan to launch a rocket as early as this week, in defiance of warnings, threatens to undo years of negotiations toward dismantling the regime's nuclear program.

March 29, 2009 - By Sarah Brown