House Appropriations Panel Eyes Funding Boost For Nuclear Security Programs By Douglas P. Guarino Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON – House appropriators were poised on Wednesday to consider largely endorsing the Obama administration’s nuclear arms spending plan while boosting funding in the next budget for select nuclear security programs and slashing spending on a controversial […]
Associated Press Article on Missile Defense Quotes Phil Coyle
Reports cast doubt on European missile defense By DESMOND BUTLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Major delays, cost overruns and critical technological problems are plaguing a missile defense system designed to protect the United States and Europe from an Iranian attack, Pentagon advisers and government investigators say about one of President Barack Obama’s top […]
Global Security Newswire Quotes Kingston Reif on Missile Defense
North Korea’s Failed Rocket Launch Prompts Missile-Defense Questions By Douglas P. Guarino Global Security Newswire April 17, 2012 North Korea’s failed rocket launch last week underscores the need for the United States to rethink missile defense spending, according to some lawmakers and arms control advocates. Click here to read the rest of the article and […]
Defense News Article on Nuclear Weapons Expertise Quotes Kingston Reif
Nuke Expert Pool Shrinking By KATE BRANNEN Defense News In about five years, every scientist with experience designing and testing nuclear weapons will have retired from the U.S. government. Thomas D’Agostino, the undersecretary for nuclear security and the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said the number of nuclear scientists with weapons […]
Politico Article on Missile Defense Quotes Phil Coyle
Missile defense debate reignites By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE Politico For decades, the military’s been trying to get a missile shield system in place that would eliminate the danger of the kind potentially posed by the rocket North Korea launched Friday morning Pyongyang time. Click here to read the rest of the article and quotes from […]