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 […]
Tuscon Sentinel Story on Missile Defense Program Quotes Philip Coyle
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, […]
Knoxville News Sentinel OpEd: Upgrading B61 nuclear bomb doesn’t make sense
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 […]
Could a nuclear-armed Iran be contained?
Published in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online By Kingston Reif Article summary below; read the full text here. On September 4, 1962, President John F. Kennedy released a statement in response to intelligence reports of a Soviet arms buildup in Cuba. Kennedy said the United States did not have evidence “of the presence of […]
Duyeon Kim Appears on World News Today Discussing North Korea’s Third Nuclear Test
Senior non-proliferation and East Asia fellow, Duyeon Kim, joins BBC World News Today to discuss North Korea’s third nuclear test. Watch the video here.
