Robert Menendez, Cory Booker undermine Iran accord By Usha Sahay In her Jan. 23 op-ed “N.J. senators a threat to Iran deal,” Rachel Staley argues that Sen. Robert Menendez’s sanctions bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) and 43 Republican senators, undermines ongoing attempts to cap Iran’s nuclear program. For three decades, the United […]

What sank the Senate’s Iran sanctions bill? By Peter Weber January 30, 2014 In mid-January it appeared that a bipartisan Senate bill threatening Iran with new sanctions was a foregone conclusion. Yes, President Obama opposed the legislation and promised to veto it, but supporters of the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act strongly hinted that they […]

Pentagon Test Czar Sees Possible Need for Interceptor Component Redesign Rachel Oswald January 29, 2014 The Pentagon’s testing czar on Wednesday said a critical piece of the U.S. missile-defense system may require a redesign following multiple test failures. The Defense Department’s operational test and evaluation office concluded in its fiscal 2013 annual report that repeated […]

U.S. should consider re-design of missile defense system: report January 29. 2014 By Andrea Shalal-Esa (Reuters) – The U.S. Missile Defense Agency should consider redesigning a key part of its ground-based missile defense system after a series of test failures in recent years, the Pentagon’s chief arms tester said in a new report due to […]

Call for flawed US missile defence system redesign By Tereza Pultarova The US Missile Defense Agency should consider redesigning a key part of its ground-based missile defence system following a series of test failures, a new report has said. The report by Pentagon’s chief arms tester has reviewed glitches that occurred during the system’s testing […]