Missile Defense Head Stands by Flawed Interceptor By Staff July 19, 2013 Missile Defense Agency head Vice Adm. James Syring on Wednesday defended the utility of the nation’s principal system for thwarting possible ICBM attacks, saying he believes that what caused a July 5 test failure is fixable. Syring confirmed that the launched Ground-based Interceptor […]

Rep. Ryan votes for ‘golden’ bomb By Keary Iarussi When the fallout cleared from the failure of a House amendment to a 2014 spending bill that would have eliminated a small amount of funding for yet another unrealistic, over-budget, and behind-schedule military program, I was surprised to see our own representative, Tim Ryan, among the […]

U.S. should take the lead in reducing nuclear danger By William Lambers Ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is a good start It was July 16, 1945, when the first atomic bomb test was carried out by the United States. Since that time over 2,000 nuclear test explosions have been carried out, most of […]

German Election Trends Point To Status Quo For U.S. Nukes In Europe July 17, 2013 New polls see German Chancellor Angela Merkel getting reelected in September, and that means another trans-Atlantic spat over U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe — including an overhauled B61 gravity bomb — is unlikely to come to pass anytime soon, […]

US Missile Defense Chief Backs East Coast Radars, More Interceptor Sites July 17, 2013 By Paul McLeary WASHINGTON — US Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, confirmed today that the controversial Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system failed to intercept a dummy rocket over the Pacific on July 5 because “the kill […]