by Kingston Reif Kingston Reif, “Nuclear Turkeys: The Pentagon has too much hardware once thought necessary to defeat the Soviet Union” was featured on Yuba Net on November 14, 2011. By the time you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, the 12-member congressional supercommittee will have succeeded in meeting its November 23 deadline to approve a […]
Expanding Nuclear Weapons Budget a Bad Investment
by Laicie Heeley and Kingston Reif “Getting America’s fiscal house in order will require difficult budgetary choices. This means that we need to make smart decisions about what is most needed to safeguard U.S. national security in the 21st century,” write Laicie Olson and Kingston Reif in their article published in World Politics Review on September […]
Review of the Senate Appropriations Committee Version of the FY 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
by Kingston Reif Summary: Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and the rest of the members of the subcommittee deserve great credit for prioritizing essential nuclear and radiological material security and nonproliferation programs. While the House cut the budget for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), the key program in the […]
Parting words: Gates and tactical nuclear weapons in Europe
by Kingston Reif Published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Online on July 14, 2011 Article summary below; read the full text online By Kingston Reif and Emma Lecavalier In a recent speech in Brussels, departing Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized European members of NATO for allowing defense obligations to fall increasingly upon the […]
A Review of the Senate Armed Services Committee Version of the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Authorization Bill
by Kingston Reif and Laicie Heeley On June 16 the Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1253). The committee approved $682.5 billion, including $553 billion for the Pentagon base budget, $117.8 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $18.1 billion for Department of Energy nuclear programs. […]
