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ICBM Wings See Challenge to Morale, Readiness & Relevancy
  On the radar: Missileer complaints; Boomer bulge in budget; East Coast cash; Susan Rice gets corner office; Sen. Corker on sanctions; and Bushehr reportedly damaged from quakes.   Read more »
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Posted on June 5, 2013
Broken Missile Defenses and Clever Politics
  On the radar: Interceptors that can’t intercept; Nowruz statement; Talks in Turkey; Fallback options; How to reach a deal with Iran; New WH coordinator on WMD; and Maj. Kong as a young child.   Read more »
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Posted on March 19, 2013
Why are Nuclear Weapons Shielded from the Sequester?
  On the radar: Self-assurance masquerading as deterrence; $143 billion on nuclear weapons; New threats, new sanctions, new tension; Reduced numbers, reduced threat; History of threats; and the Rodman option on diplomacy.   Read more »
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Posted on March 8, 2013
A War We Never Should Have Waged
The Iraq War is the greatest strategic blunder in American history. It cost our nation $1 trillion, the lives of thousands of our finest warriors, and our international credibility. It made defeating al-Qaeda harder, stopping Iran more difficult, and global security more precarious. It was not, as some now say, simply the fault of bad intelligence. Our senior officials willfully and systematically misled the American people and our closest allies on the most crucial question any government faces: Must we go to war? Read more »
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Posted by Joe Cirincione on December 15, 2011
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