Should the Nuclear Triad Be Saved? December 25, 2013 By Mark Thompson The U.S. spent two generations building a nuclear triad of bombers, land-based ICBMs and missile-firing submarines to prevail in the Cold War against the Soviet Union. A generation ago, the Soviet Union went away, and we continued maintaining the triad on some kind […]

Obama administration understated nuclear weapons costs December 24, 2013 By R. Jeffrey Smith The Obama administration’s plan for maintaining and upgrading the U.S. nuclear arsenal will likely cost around 66 percent more over the next decade than senior Pentagon officials have predicted, according to a new assessment by the independent Congressional Budget Office. Under the […]

U.S. nuclear weapon plans to cost $355 billion over a decade: CBO report December 20, 2013 By David Alexander (Reuters) – The Obama administration’s plans for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, including modernization of bombs, delivery systems and laboratories, will cost the country about $355 billion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said […]

Why the Iran deal is good for U.S. By Laicie Heeley December 12, 2013 Two weeks after the P5+1 powers reached a deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear program in return for some sanctions relief, the American public is still trying to make sense of the deal. Multiple polls, including from Washington Post/ABC and Reuters/Ipsos […]

Compromise Bill Limits Restrictions on Nuclear Arms Control Efforts Douglas P. Guarino December 12, 2013 A new defense conference bill includes limits on nuclear arms control efforts, but the restrictions are not as prohibitive as some House Republicans wanted. As originally approved by the House in June, the defense authorization bill for fiscal 2014 would […]