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Deverrick Holmes

Deverrick Holmes is a policy intern at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, where he focuses on missile defense and nuclear weapons policy. He has also interned at the Hudson Institute Center for Political-Military Analysis. Prior to entering the national security field, he worked for Morgan Stanley’s operations division in Baltimore, Maryland.


Articles by Deverrick Holmes

In the first US “salvo” test of ground-based missile interceptors, two interceptors were launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on March 25, 2019. They successfully intercepted a “threat-representative” ICBM target launched from a test site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This photo shows the launch of the “lead” interceptor, which destroyed the missile’s reentry vehicle. The “trail” interceptor struck the remaining “most lethal object” it could find. Credit: Missile Defense Agency

Congress is not asking the right questions about missile defense

By Deverrick Holmes | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow