From Sudan to cyber, secret war with Iran heats up
Reuters, By Peter Apps WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From a suspected Israeli airstrike in Sudan to cyber warfare in the Gulf and a drone shot down over Israel, the largely hidden war between Iran and its...
View ArticleIran, U.N. nuclear agency plan December talks
Reuters, By Fredrik Dahl The U.N. nuclear agency said it would hold a new round of talks with Iran on its atomic program next month, in the latest push to resolve a dispute that has raised fears of war...
View ArticleToday In Crappy Defense Procurement Decisions
An F-22 has crashed in South California – $190m that US taxpayers won’t see again, in a $71.6 billion program to build an aircraft that can’t even reliably deliver oxygen to the pilot. The US Air...
View ArticleSouth Korea says North is preparing for new rocket launch
Washington Post, By Chico Harlan SEOUL — With fresh satellite images showing increasing activity at its launch site, North Korea could be ready to fire a long-range rocket within several weeks, South...
View ArticleIn-depth series: The global race to bear arms
Global Post, December 3 From Mexico’s drug violence to conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, the global trade in small arms is helping fuel violence around the world. Legal sales alone have more...
View ArticleBeltway Wonkdom: Where Clever Words Disguise Odious Arguments
Dr. Christopher A. Ford is a Senior Fellow at the neoconservative Hudson Institute, and regarded by the Beltway set as something of a conservative expert on matters nuclear and on nonproliferation. He...
View ArticleNorth Korea Rocket Launch: Long-Range Missile Fired
Reuters – North Korea successfully launched a rocket on Wednesday, boosting the credentials of its new leader and stepping up the threat the isolated and impoverished state poses to its opponents. The...
View Article“Meaningful Contributions”
What an interesting turn of phrase the NRA has resorted to, after nearly five days of utter silence with regard to the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter: After days of silence, the National Rifle...
View ArticleKa-Chinggg!!!
Reuters Analysis: U.S. arms sales to Asia set to boom on Pacific “pivot”. The pivot “will result in growing opportunities for our industry to help equip our friends,” said Fred Downey, vice president...
View ArticlePakistans Tac-Nuke Love
Shashank Joshi, of the Royal United Services Institute, examines Pakistan’s new strategy of developing tactical nuclear weapons and a doctrine of battlefield use for them, in an attempt to close the...
View ArticleA Schmear With Your Hagel?
OK, now that things have settled down a bit, I’m ready to take on what I think will be the key issue over the next few weeks: filling Obama’s Cabinet. John Kerry should be a slam-dunk for Secretary...
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It’s Still Five Minutes To Midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board recently announced its decision to keep the Doomsday Clock at five minutes to midnight. Today, the Bulletin reprinted the Board’s open...
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President Obama Needs to Tell the Truth
The word truth often signifies an expression of profound belief. Opponent of higher taxes insist that low tax rates promote new jobs and an expanding gross domestic product. Proponents of higher...
View ArticleObama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weapons plan emerges
(The Guardian) – Plan to spend $10bn on updating nuclear bombs goes against 2010 pledge not to deploy new weapons, say critics Barack Obama has been accused of reneging on his disarmament pledges after...
View ArticleThe Secret War
INFILTRATION. SABOTAGE. MAYHEM. FOR YEARS, FOUR-STAR GENERAL KEITH ALEXANDER HAS BEEN BUILDING A SECRET ARMY CAPABLE OF LAUNCHING DEVASTATING CYBERATTACKS. NOW IT’S READY TO UNLEASH HELL. Wired Threat...
View ArticlePanama says North Korean arms shipment a matter for UN
(AFP) – Panama called Tuesday for UN investigators to inspect a shipment of suspected weapons parts aboard a North Korean-flagged ship as it tried to enter the Panama Canal last week. The post Panama...
View ArticleCheryl Rofer’s Nuclear Diner:
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View Article‘David Against Nuclear Goliaths’: Nation Wages Legal Fight ‘for All Humanity’
Marshall Islands, still plagued by U.S. nuclear bomb testing, says 9 nuclear nations must abide by non-proliferation, disarm. Common Dreams, April 24 In an unprecedented legal action, the small Pacific...
View ArticleThe Obama Arms Bazaar
Counterpunch, By William D. Hartung, April 3-5 With the end of the Obama presidency just around the corner, discussions of his administration’s foreign policy legacy are already well under way. But one...
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