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Friday’s Missile Defense Test: What Will It Mean?
By Tom Z. Collina In its own multi-million dollar display of fireworks, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will conduct an intercept test of the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) system on Friday, July 5. This will be the first test of … Continue reading
Senate Scales Back the B61
By Tom Z. Collina In a victory for fiscal sanity, Senate appropriators today cut the budget for the B61 gravity bomb, a $10 billion program to upgrade a weapon that President Obama said last week he wants to reduce. Given … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Nuclear Weapons, Tactical Nuclear Weapons
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Nuke Subs Sinking Navy Budget
By Tom Z. Collina In these days of high-stakes budget battles on Capitol Hill, it is typical for budget managers to point at someone else’s program as the problem. But when everyone starts pointing at the same program, you know … Continue reading
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Tagged nuclear modernization, Nuclear Weapons, Obama Administration
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The Prague Nuclear Agenda, Part Two
By Tom Z. Collina Four years after the historic speech in Prague laying out his nuclear policy priorities, President Barack Obama must now decide which issues to focus on in his second—and last—term. The administration accomplished many important arms control … Continue reading
New START Almost Goes Over the Cliff
By Tom Z. Collina and Daryl G. Kimball In all the last minute drama about whether the nation would fall off the ‘fiscal cliff,’ it went largely unnoticed that the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) almost took … Continue reading
East Coast Missile Defense? Just Say No, Again
By Tom Z. Collina The FY 2013 Defense Authorization Bill is on the Senate floor this week, and Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) is planning to offer an amendment that would promote the construction of a missile defense site on the … Continue reading
For Missile Defense, “It Depends” Is Not Good Enough
By Tom Z. Collina How much confidence would you demand in a missile interceptor system before paying $25 billion for it? When asking your advisers if the system would work against nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and they say “it depends” on … Continue reading
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New Report: After Over $30 Billion Spent, U.S. Missile Defense Still Has Serious “Shortcomings”
By Tom Z. Collina A report by the National Research Council (NRC) released today finds that the US Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) system deployed Alaska and California has “shortcomings” so serious that it recommends the system be completely redesigned, rebuilt … Continue reading
Dumping the ABM Treaty: Was It Worth It?
In retrospect, the Bush administration should not have fielded its national missile defense system. The technology was not ripe; the threat had not materialized; and the opportunity cost was too high. By Tom Z. Collina Ten years ago this week, … Continue reading
Posted in Cyberspace and Space, Missile Defense, Nuclear Weapons
Tagged Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD), nuclear arms race, President George W. Bush, START II treaty, two-stage Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), U.S.-Russian strategic relationship
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Cartwright’s Disarming Approach to Missile Defense
The NATO summit in Chicago ended, as expected, with the Alliance and Russia at loggerheads on missile defense. With great fanfare, NATO inaugurated the first phase of its missile interceptor system. In response, Russia skipped the summit, tested a new … Continue reading
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