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 […]
Summary of the House Appropriations Committee Version of the FY 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
by Kingston Reif On June 15 the House Appropriations Committee marked up (i.e. wrote) the Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill. The bill passed Committee by a vote of 26-20. Every Democrat except Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Pete Visclosky (D-IN) opposed the bill. The full committee draft and the […]
Duyeon Kim on CBS News
Click here for the video link. “It’s [North Korean attack] a clear violation of the Korean armistice, the UN Charter and a host of non-aggression agreements. Unlike past provocations in the West Sea, this time was much more serious and much more provocative because it directly attacked South Korean territory killing lives and injuring many […]
What the 2010 elections mean for national security issues
by John Isaacs Published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on November 29, 2010. It goes without saying that the mid-term elections were a disaster for Democrats: Republicans took control of the House of Representatives — winning over 60 seats — and also picked up six Senate seats. The Senate will remain in Democratic hands, […]