As you may have heard, a July 5 flight intercept test of the ground based midcourse defense (GMD) system failed to hit its target. The Missile Defense Agency has yet to announce what caused the miss. The failed test has apparently not shaken the Penta…
Huffington Post OpEd: Obama Picks Up His Own Nuclear Baton by Lt. General Robert Gard and Amb. Thomas Graham
Obama Picks Up His Own Nuclear Baton By Lt. General Robert Gard, Jr. (USA, Ret.) & Ambassador (Ret.) Thomas Graham, Jr. In a speech in Berlin on June 19, a second-term Obama picked up the nuclear baton from first-term Obama, a baton which had been entrusted to him by three generations of presidents from both […]
Global Security Newswire Story on Permanent Missile Defense in Guam Quotes Kingston Reif
Guam Legislators Want Missile Defenses Made Permanent By Rachel Oswald July 9, 2013 WASHINGTON — A number of Guam legislators are calling for the U.S. military to leave in place on their island ballistic missile defenses that were set up on a temporary basis this spring amid saber-rattling by North Korea. Last week, a trio […]
Fact Sheet: The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
By Sam Kane and Kingston Reif WHAT IS THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE (PSI)? • The Proliferation Security Initiative is an international effort that aims to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and their related components and materials. WHO IS INVOLVED WITH PSI? • Initially, PSI’s membership consisted of eleven countries (the […]
All Gov Story on Missile Defense Test Failure Quotes Philip Coyle
Another Missile Defense Test, Another Failure By Matt Bewig July 7, 2013 Thirty years of work and $170 billion of taxpayer funding yielded yet another failure last week for the Pentagon’s missile interceptor program, the direct descendant of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. Popularly known as “Star Wars” after supporters made over-hyped, sci-fi fanciful […]