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 […]

Iran Offers More Monitoring to Prove It’s Nuclear-Weapons Free By Jonathan Tirone, Kambiz Foroohar & Indira A.R. Lakshmanan October 15, 2013 Iran proposed tighter monitoring of its nuclear program within a six-month period to verify it’s not pursuing atomic weapons during the first talks with world powers since it pledged to end a decade-old standoff. […]

Will change in Iran’s tune affect North Korea? By Rob York October 3, 2013 President Hassan Rouhani’s charm offensive has made many – though not all – cautiously optimistic of a new chapter in Iran’s relations with the West. But experts agree that a breakthrough in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program will not automatically translate […]