Air Force eyes return of mobile nuclear missiles By Bob Brewin The Air Force has dusted off plans more than two decades old to place fixed nuclear missiles on rail cars or massive road vehicles to protect them from a surprise attack The service also wants to explore alternatives to traditional missiles to carry nuclear […]
Laicie Olson and Kingston Reif Quoted on 2013 NDAA in the Korean Herald
Revised U.S. defense act urges tougher measures against N.K. By Shin Hyon-hee The Korean Herald The NDAA resulted from months-long negotiations between Democrats and Republicans through the double-chamber legislature’s conference committee. The Democrat-controlled Senate had resisted some hard-line proposals from the Republican-dominated House including the MD base plan due to uncertainty and budget pressure. It […]
Nukes, the Shaheen Amendment, Afghanistan and Spending Money on Unneeded Programs
Key arms control and national security policy differences remain to be resolved by the House-Senate conference committee including the East Coast missile defense system, withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, strategic arms reductions under the New START Treaty, the Shaheen amendment to protect military victims of sexual violence and funding for the next generation of Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarines, long-range bombers and the plutonium research facility at Los Alamos.
The Triad Is Not The Trinity: A Response To Gen. Chambers
by Kingston Reif Published in AOL Defense on November 16, 2012. Article summary below; read the full text online. In a November 1 article for AOL Defense, the Air Force’s General Chambers overstates the peace-promoting virtues of nuclear weapons. In addition, he exaggerates the benefits of the nuclear triad and downplays the significant financial resources […]
“Want to Hear Something Really Scary? Zombies Are Real” Or at Least Could Be
Originally published in OpEdNews October 31, 2012. In September, just a few weeks before Halloween, Paul W. S. Anderson released the fifth installment of the Resident Evil story. The film finds the heroine, Alice, needing to escape from the Umbrella Corporation, an evil pharmaceutical company plotting world domination. Eventually, the story ends with Alice and […]
