United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons By Valerie Insinna and Dan Parsons August 2013 The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals. Though fewer state-owned strategic warheads exist and the risk of global […]

In a Post-Cold War World, Uncertainty Surrounds Nuclear Triad By Valerie Insinna and Dan Parsons August 2013 The world is a very different place than it was in the 1950s, when the United States needed thousands of nuclear warheads and three ways to deliver them on target to keep the Soviet Union at bay. More […]

Syrian Rebel Stockpile Contained Ordinary Industrial Chemicals, Not Weapons: Experts By Luke Vargas July 10, 2013 UNITED NATIONS (TRNS) – Chemical stockpiles found earlier this week in a Syrian rebel stronghold of Baniyas were not suited for chemical warfare, despite forceful allegations made of their danger by representatives of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Syrian […]

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 […]