UKRAINE: HOW NOT TO END THE WAR Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg, and top diplomats from the United Kingdom, Germany and Ukraine. These joint talks between the United States, Ukraine and Europe were the first of their kind involving the Trump administration, […]
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Front and Center: July 21, 2024
SENTINEL MISSILE SYSTEM EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT At the beginning of this year, the Air Force reported to Congress that the program meant to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), known as the Sentinel, was 37% over budget. That cost overrun triggered a review mandated by law aimed at determining whether […]
Front and Center: June 16, 2024
PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE SENTINEL MISSILE SYSTEM In recent weeks, we have been highlighting the costs and risks associated with the Sentinel missile. Although a long-planned element of U.S. nuclear modernization, vast cost overruns have raised serious issues as to Sentinel’s viability. The bicameral congressional Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group hosted a press […]
Front and Center: May 18, 2024
RUSSIA PREDICTABLY ESCALATES NUCLEAR RHETORIC; BIDEN ADMIN. SAYS RESEARCH SATELLITE LAUNCHED BEFORE WAR New reporting indicates that the Biden administration believes Russia launched a research spacecraft for an anti-satellite nuclear weapon shortly before invading Ukraine in 2022, though the satellite itself was not nuclear. This revelation comes on the heels of the administration’s increasing concerns that Russia […]
Front and Center: April 27, 2024
RUSSIA VETOES RESOLUTION BARRING SPACE WEAPONS AS CONGRESS FINALLY APPROVES UKRAINE AID On Thursday, the United States and Japan presented a resolution to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) preventing nuclear weapons in space and reiterating obligations under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which was initially proposed by both the United States and Soviet Union and […]
