EMP Attacks: Threat Disaster Response Preparations
Most Americans—whether members of the public or politicians in Congress—ignore or are unaware of the very real threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. A nuclear device detonated high in the...
View ArticleObama is Not Off to a Good START
Foreign policy is not getting much attention in Washington these days, but one issue will be on the forefront in the new Congress: the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, which is before...
View ArticleDesperate Times For START Pitch
The White House’s efforts to ram the flawed U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty - aka New START - through the Senate during Congress’ lame-duck session are increasingly disingenuous and even...
View ArticleAfter Lisbon Summit, NATO Must Get Missile Defense Right
NATO’s new Strategic Concept marks a step forward in terms of addressing the security challenges presented by the post–Cold War world.
View ArticleBallistic Missile Defense Plans Offer No Confidence in New START
New START could well complicate and limit the ability of the U.S. to develop the comprehensive missile defenses.
View ArticleWhy Obama Failed From the START
Throughout World War II, Walter "Beetle" Smith fought on two fronts. As Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief of staff, he battled Ike's prickly subordinates like George "Blood and Guts" Patton as well as the...
View ArticlePlaying Politics on National Security on New START Treaty
It’s a full court press by the Obama Administration. The goal: to hurry the Senate into approving the stalled nuclear arms treaty, the New START Treaty, with Russia during the Lame Duck session. This...
View ArticleSTART Over With the Russians to Ratify Treaty
The New START treaty has faced more opposition than the Obama administration expected. If it fails to win Senate approval, the administration has no one to blame but itself.
View ArticleAnother Shoe Drops on New START
Unconfirmed reports of a secret side agreement to the New START nuclear arms treaty started circulating in mid-October. The side agreement supposedly restricts the U.S.’s ability to pursue a robust...
View ArticleNuke Modernization is Chump Bait for New START Treaty
Invasion of North Africa by the Allies loomed when the War Department in Washington exploded in crisis after a secret cable was received containing the code-word "Telek." The crytographers were...
View ArticleNew START is a Bad Deal at Any Time
For two election cycles in a row, a frustrated American people voted to throw out the incumbent party because they did not like how Washington was operating. In 2008 the Republicans lost the White...
View ArticleOttawa Mine Ban Convention: Unacceptable on Substance and Process
By announcing a review of U.S. landmine policy, the Obama Administration has reopened the possibility that the U.S. could become a party to the fatally flawed Ottawa Convention, which bans the use of...
View ArticleExport Controls and the Hard Case of China
The People’s Republic of China is a major U.S. trading partner and a potential antagonist. Thus, the United States has good reason to exercise some control over U.S. exports, particularly of sensitive...
View ArticleMartha MacCallum Quotes Nile Gardiner on START
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum cites research and analysis by Nile Gardiner on New START.
View ArticleA Puzzling Case of 'Resetting' Russian Relations
s nuclear arsenal will get smaller with or without New START. The treaty would tie us to nuclear parity with Russia. Why do that when the real problem is a rising nuclear China and proliferating rogue...
View ArticleOn Arms Control, Learn from Reagan
Much reporting and commentary casts the Senate debate over ratification of the New START nuclear-weapons treaty as driven by partisanship. But New START skeptics are driven by something else: the idea...
View ArticleEuropean Union's Arms Embargo on China
Great Britain must stand behind its commitment to uphold human rights in China and veto any attempt to lift the EU arms embargo.
View ArticleNew START: Clarification on Russia's Proposed Ratification Law Needed
The understandings that the Senate adopted on New START are not meant to just take up space.
View ArticleNo Meeting of the Minds on New START
New START is a done deal. On Tuesday, the Russian Duma gave the green light to the nuclear arms reduction treaty, as the U.S. Senate had more than a month earlier.
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