Washington Whispers: Senate Appropriators Reverse Obama’s Nuclear Non-Proliferation Cuts June 26, 2013 By Steven Nelson US News and World Report Earlier this year President Barack Obama presented a budget proposal to Congress that included across-the-board cuts to nuclear non-proliferation programs. The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended Thursday that some of those cuts be reversed. Among the […]

Congress Pushes Back Against White House on Nukes, Syria By Paul McLeary June 26, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration faced renewed heat from Congress last week on a number of national security fronts, ranging from the president’s new proposal for reducing US and Russian nuclear arsenals to the recent decision to supply arms and […]

U.S. Official Defends Spending on NATO Missile Shield, Under GOP Attack By Rachel Oswald June 25, 2013 WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official on Friday said that a ballistic missile shield being established in Europe would contribute to defending the U.S. homeland, despite a recent decision to toss out plans for an advanced ICBM […]

Target malfunctions imperil U.S. missile defense effort By Richard H.P. Sia June 22, 2013 Shortly after 11 a.m. local time, a U.S. ballistic missile target loaded with a mock nuclear warhead blasted off from Narrow Cape, a low-lying coastal area of Alaska’s Kodiak Island. A network of radars from Alaska to California tracked the target, […]

Upgrading B61 nuclear bomb doesn’t make sense By Jacob Bennett & Usha Sahay on June 22, 2013 In a recent interview, Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander expressed his frustration with the out-of-control costs of nuclear weapons facilities. Asked about the increasingly expensive Oak Ridge Uranium Processing Facility, the senator told the News Sentinel’s Frank Munger: “I’ve […]