Missiles & Space

The Obama administration is pursuing a missile defense plan based on a system with questionable test records.  The New York Times reported on a technical critique of the SM-3 interceptor by Dr. Ted Postol of MIT and Dr. George Lewis of Cornell University recently published in Arms Control Today.   Read more >>

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The Heritage Foundation's film about nuclear threats, "33 Minutes", is a modern day Reefer Madness, the 1930s film on the descent into insanity and criminality of a group of marijuana smokers. Read more >>

Nuclear blogger Max Bergmann, writing for the Center for American Progress' Wonk Room, corrected Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Frank Gaffney’s assertion that last week’s Wall Street Journal op-ed by George Shultz, Bill Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn called for building a new nuclear warhead.  "Despite the fact that there is nothing written in the op-ed that says anything about building a new warhead. Read more >>

President Obama sent National Security Adviser James L. Jones and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen to Moscow on Wednesday to clear the last hurdles to a new nuclear pact, but some observers worry that U.S. Read more >>