Tom Karako
Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he arrived in 2014. His research focuses on national security, missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and public law. In 2010–2011, he was an American Political Science Association congressional fellow, working with the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee and the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on U.S. strategic forces policy, nonproliferation, and NATO. Dr. Karako is also currently a fellow with the Institute for Politics and Strategy of Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD from Claremont Graduate University and his BA from the University of Dallas.
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What Iran's Attack Tells Us About Their Arsenal
Tom Karako in Deep State Radio — April 19, 2024
Defense & Aerospace Air Power Podcast [Apr 18, 24] Season 2 E15: Spear It in the Sky
Tom Karako in GE Aerospace — April 18, 2024
What Iran’s attack on Israel revealed about its weapons arsenal
Tom Karako in The Washington Post — April 17, 2024
Drone-and-Missile Warfare Tests Supply-Strapped Defense Systems
Tom Karako in The Wall Street Journal — April 17, 2024
How Israel Defended Against Iran's Drone and Missile Attack
Tom Karako in Wired — April 14, 2024
U.S. details Pentagon’s role in defending Israel from Iranian attack
Tom Karako in The Washington Post — April 14, 2024
Ukraine's Patriot kills of Russian planes and missiles have turned a US air-defense weapon with a troubled past into a hero
Tom Karako in Business Insider — March 23, 2024
The $130 Billion Plan to Replace the U.S.’s Minuteman Nuclear Missiles
Tom Karako in The Wall Street Journal — March 20, 2024
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Missile Defense Ukraine
Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Tom Karako — April 7, 2022
National Security Issues in the Party Conventions and Platforms
Podcast Episode by Tom Karako — September 14, 2020
The Worldwide Threat Assessment and the Missile Defense Review
Podcast Episode by Victor Cha, Tom Karako, and H. Andrew Schwartz — January 31, 2019
Integrating Strike and Defense
Event — June 27, 2017
Aegis Intercept Test
Critical Questions by Tom Karako — June 22, 2017
The GMD Intercept: What Does It Mean?
Critical Questions by Tom Karako — May 30, 2017
Missile Defense 2020: Next Steps for Defending the Homeland
Event — April 7, 2017
Space Security: Issues for the New U.S. Administration
Event — March 22, 2017
Missile Defense: Time to Go Big
Report by Tom Karako — December 21, 2016
Nuclear Forces: Restore the Primacy of Deterrence
Report by Tom Karako — December 12, 2016