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Salon.com May 2, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Star Wars, the gentler sequel In announcing his support for a national missile defense, George W. Bush puts a futuristic spin on a Cold War relic... |
Salon.com June 26, 2000 David Horowitz |
Al Gore's missile-defense dodge The vice president cares more about reassuring the Russians than protecting Americans, and that's why George W. Bush should be president. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Joshua Micah Marshall |
Dubya's atomic fib Instead of stopping an arms race, George W. Bush's Star Wars plan could help fuel one. |
Salon.com January 23, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
Secret weapons Frances FitzGerald talks about the Bush administration's commitment to national missile defense, the "son of Star Wars" scheme no one seems to understand... |
Salon.com August 11, 2000 Fiona Morgan |
Mutually assured dysfunction President Clinton's nuclear missile defense plan will spur a new arms race, a report by top intelligence agencies predicts. |
Parameters Summer 2004 Justin Bernier |
The Death of Disarmament in Russia? Traditional arms control agreements with Russia, it seems, are as much a part of Cold War history as the Soviet Union itself. |
National Defense June 2009 Clark A. Murdock |
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons: How Realistic Is Obama's Vision? Debating the realism of trying to rid the world of nuclear weapons is a pointless exercise. |
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons |
United States Remains Concerned About Nuclear Weapons The number of nuclear weapons in circulation worldwide has been slowly but steadily declining in recent years because the United States and Russia are scaling back their nuclear arsenals. |
Salon.com July 30, 2001 Jeffrey Tayler |
Soul brothers Journalists jeered, but President Bush was right when he made nice with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former KGB agent talks tough, but he can't afford to fight missile defense... |
National Defense October 2014 Marvin Baker Schaffer |
Time to Revive Debate About Space-Based Missile Defense Boost phase missile defense is necessary to reliably and cost-effectively defeat the most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile threats, those of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. |
Popular Mechanics September 3, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
U.S. and Russian Nukes Get Sophisticated as Numbers Dwindle Arms control efforts may become a casualty as the Russian invasion of Georgia deepens mistrust between the United States and Russia. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Robert Scheer |
When in doubt, nuke 'em The Pentagon's secret plan to fight terror with nuclear weapons shows just how dangerous this administration is... |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Tim Shorrock |
U.S. Deploys Missile Defense System The rockets may not glare and bombs may not burst in the air but the Bush administration is forging ahead with construction of what it terms an "operational" missile defense system. |
Salon.com May 16, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
"A dangerous step backwards" Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back? |
Popular Mechanics August 28, 2008 Erik Sofge |
Inside U.S. Missile Defense Tech--and (Perhaps) a New Cold War The U.S. ballistic missile defense shield has been up and running since 2004, and it's growing. |
Wired April 2002 Bruce Sterling |
Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes... |
National Defense August 2013 Insinna & Parsons |
In a Post-Cold War World, Uncertainty Surrounds Nuclear Triad The world is a very different place than it was in the 1950s, when the United States needed thousands of nuclear warheads and three ways to deliver them on target to keep the Soviet Union at bay. |
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Steps Up Efforts to Keep WMD Out of Enemy Hands Amid concerns about terrorist attacks against the U.S. and its allies, the U.S. government is increasing its efforts to keep enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction. Some of these efforts, however, are raising hackles even at home. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Annie Turner |
The View From Europe: Proposed U.S. Missile Shield in Europe Alarms Russians, Irks Some Europeans In an attempt to protect itself from the threat of intercontinental attacks, the U.S. has thoroughly alarmed the Russians and ensured that European nations have their own welfare, not the continent's, at heart. |
Salon.com September 6, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
The backward Bushies The White House has started a new arms race using old, Cold War logic... |
Scientific American March 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Threats of War, Chances for Peace Preventing the spread of war will depend on strategies that recognize the shared interests of adversaries. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
Taming the bear In a new book, former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott says Clinton deserves much credit for Russia's warming to the West -- and recalls a drunken Yeltsin calling for pizza in his underpants... |
Wired April 2002 George Lewis & Theodore Postol |
Shoot To Kill Two MIT rocket scientists have a dire warning for Washington: The Bush plan for national missile defense won't work. Here's one that will... |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Thomas M. Kane |
Dragon or Dinosaur? Nuclear Weapons in a Modernizing China Analysts of contemporary Chinese foreign policy often dismiss the nuclear arsenal of the People's Republic of China as insignificant in size and passively defensive in purpose. This article argues that Beijing has long-term aspirations to improve its position in world politics, and that nuclear weapons play a fundamental role in its plans. |
Wired March 2002 Evan Ratliff |
This Is Not a Test A decade after America's last nuclear test, the US arsenal is decaying and its designers are retiring. Now a new generation of scientists is trying to preserve bomb-building knowledge before it's too late... |
Parameters Autumn 2007 Christopher Hemmer |
Responding to a Nuclear Iran What should American foreign policy be if current efforts to discourage Iran from developing nuclear weapons fail? |
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 William Sweet |
Google Earth Pictures Open Windows on China's Nuclear Weaponry Here is an interview with the nuclear weapons specialist at the Federation of American Scientists who believes Google images shed light on China's deployment of its second-generation of nuclear weapons systems. |
National Defense August 2014 Robert G. Gard Jr. |
National Missile Defense Technology Still Falls Short The United States has been attempting to develop a workable national missile defense capability since 1944. |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Travis Sharp |
Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy Defense spending should be determined according to threat-based analysis and not fixed at 4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). |
Salon.com August 2, 2001 Robert Scheer |
Pity the fool George Bush isn't mean, he just ain't too bright... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Annie Turner |
The View From Europe: It's Not the Cold War 2.0, But it is Brinkmanship Europe and the US are increasingly alarmed by Russia... Polish arms dealer nets Iraqi contract... |
National Defense September 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Scottish National Party Sweep Calls U.K. Trident Program Into Question Scots have historically been wary of the United Kingdom's Trident program, the country's sole nuclear deterrent, which consists of Vanguard-class submarines, Trident II D5 ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads based in Scotland. |
Salon.com September 25, 2002 Robert Scheer |
The arrogance of the Bush Doctrine The president's new foreign policy will only anger other countries, and provoke them to take their own "preemptive action." |
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Harry S. Laver |
Preemption and the Evolution of America's Strategic Defense In practice as much as in policy, America's defense doctrine must include more sophisticated and nuanced diplomatic initiatives and humanitarian programs, efforts designed to reduce the underlying sources of terrorist motivation and recruitment. |
Reason February 2003 Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
Wired Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
Parameters Summer 2008 Jeffrey Record |
Retiring Hitler and "Appeasement" from the National Security Debate History has proven that negotiating with terrorists and radicals won't work. |
Reason April 2009 Cathy Young |
Unclenching the Fist U.S.-Russian relations in the age of Obama. |
Parameters Autumn 2004 Richard L. Russell |
Iran in Iraq's Shadow: Dealing with Tehran's Nuclear Weapons Bid The Iraq war is the backdrop for the evolving policy debate on Iran. Tehran might be tempted to harness the threat of nuclear weapons for leverage in the political-military struggle against the United States for power and influence in the Persian Gulf. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson |
Ballistic Missile Defense Looks to the Future Command centers that will help guide ballistic missile defense efforts are providing opportunities for a wide variety of commercial off-the-shelf computers, displays, and high-speed networking. |
Popular Mechanics December 2008 |
New Defensive Missiles Protect U.S. Against Rogue Attacks If a missile is headed for the United States, the Missile Defense Agency's defensive net will work. "I feel confident in the system," says Delta Crew's director, Maj. Don Mercer. |
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Rossant & Crock |
Can The U.S. And Europe Make Up? As U.S.-European relations heal, along comes the thorny issue of weapons sales to China. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Steven E. Meyer |
Carcass of Dead Policies: The Irrelevance of NATO During the Cold War, NATO provided the proper linchpin of American--and West European--security policy, and served as a useful, even fundamental deterrent to Soviet military might and expansionism. However, NATO's time has come and gone, and today there is no legitimate reason for it to exist. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
Salon.com April 3, 2001 Ben Barber |
Back to the Cold War? As Bush rattles his saber -- and China rattles back -- tensions rise around the world... |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys. |
National Defense August 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Hypersonic Weapons Race Gathers Speed What nation wouldn't want a weapon that closes in on its target at Mach 10, or about 7,500 mph? |
Parameters Spring 2007 Louis Rene Beres |
Israel's Uncertain Strategic Future An assessment of current threats to Israel's survival along with recommendations for an end to its policy of nuclear ambiguity. |