U.S. nuclear arms modernization plan misguided: scientists’ group David Alexander October 17, 2013 (Reuters) – An Obama administration plan to spend $60 billion over the next 25 years to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal is misguided and violates the spirit of its pledge not to develop new nuclear arms, a Union of Concerned Scientists report […]

Iran Nuclear Talks End with No Breakthrough By Oren Dorell October 17, 2013 Nuclear talks between Iran and world powers ended on a promising note Wednesday, according to the United States, but analysts cautioned that Iran had not appeared to agree on any of the major demands of the West. Media reports that Iran had […]

U.S. Should Cancel Plutonium Plant, Delay Uranium Facility: Expert Report Rachel Oswald October 17, 2013 WASHINGTON — The United States should cancel plans to build a multi-billion dollar plutonium research facility in New Mexico and postpone construction of an enriched-uranium processing plant in Tennessee, according to a report released Thursday by the Union of Concerned […]

Published in The Hill on October 16, 2013. Article summary below, click here to read full article. By Lt. General Robert Gard A powerful U.S. military is indispensable to our national security; but in many ways, our bloated military budget has become a direct threat to the very security it is designed to create and […]

Published on OtherWords.org on October 30, 2013. By Lt. General Robert Gard, Jr. (USA, ret.) Our bloated military budget contributes significantly to our massive national debt and threatens the very security it’s intended to provide. Several expensive and unnecessary military programs are behind this paradox. The Pentagon should cut them from its $640.5 billion budget […]