Thomas Karako
Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Thomas Karako is the director of the Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow with the Defense and Security Department 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.
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Officials from Poland and NATO now say a missile that landed inside of Poland on Tuesday, killing two people looks as if it may have been fired by Ukraine's air defences, instead of a Russian strike, [...] More
