Smaller Arsenals Beat Bigger Ones By James Lewis After years of leaving his nuclear weapons policy on the back burner, President Barack Obama called last month for major reductions in U.S. and Russian strategic stockpiles. Obama made these remarks outside Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, nine days and 50 years after President John F. Kennedy’s American University […]

Iran may test missile by 2015 July 10, 2013 By Barrie Barber WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Iran could develop and test an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the United States by 2015, a missile threat assessment report has warned. The National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson released the report Wednesday that […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]