North Korea Threat: There Is No Substitute for a Strong U.S. Missile Defense
Today, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that the United States will shore up its missile defense system. Yet again, the Obama Administration is proving… Read More
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North Korea Defies with Nuclear Test
Pyongyang again disobeyed international efforts to rein in the recalcitrant regime by conducting its third nuclear test. North Korea announced it successfully conducted a test… Read More
What’s Up with That North Korea Video?
Is North Korea threatening to bomb the United States? That’s the question on people’s minds after that country released a strange video depicting a fiery… Read More
VIDEO: Heritage’s James Jay Carafano on the Israel-Hamas Conflict
Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement in Cairo today, bringing to a halt Operation Pillar of Defense. The ceasefire ends eight days of fighting… Read More
Morning Bell: Why We Aren’t Producing Enough Domestic Energy
President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney had a heated exchange about energy in the most recent debate. The President repeated his refrain that oil… Read More
Russia Draws a Veil over Its Weapons Program
On Wednesday, the Russian government said it will not seek to extend the Nunn–Lugar program after the program expires next year. The Nunn–Lugar program has… Read More
Changing the Definition of “All of the Above” Energy Policy
The Heritage Foundation has been making the case against energy subsidies for years. This research eventually led to a letter written in March 2011 by… Read More
President Obama’s False Premises on U.S. Unilateral Nuclear Reductions
A recent op-ed by Representative Michael Turner (R–OH) draws attention to President Obama’s lack of clarity regarding his Nuclear Posture Review implementation study. Indeed, the… Read More
Russia to Create “Son of Satan” Missile
Last week, General Sergei Karakayev, Commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, announced plans for a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to go into production… Read More
President Obama’s Dangerous Dream of a Nuclear-Free World
One of the attention-grabbing scenes in the movie 2016: Obama’s America shows the President’s nuclear summit in 2009. The idea behind the summit was that… Read More
Chinese Want U.S. to Stop Playing Defense While They Improve Their Offense
Last week, Chinese General Zhu Chenghu stated that China “will have to modernize its nuclear arsenal” as U.S. missile defense “may reduce the credibility of… Read More
Nuclear Proliferation Still Leads to Instability
In his recent article in Foreign Affairs, “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb: Nuclear Balancing Would Mean Stability,” Kenneth N. Waltz is swimming upstream against… Read More
When Will the President Reveal a Secret Deal with the Russians?
Congressman Mike Turner (R–OH) recently released a video asking what secret deal with the Russian Federation President Obama had in mind when he told Russian… Read More
Stuxnet Revelation Continues Obama Administration Trend of Classified Leaks
The New York Times revealed today in a major news article that the well-known Stuxnet malware attack on the Iranian nuclear program was, in fact,… Read More
Policymakers Should Disregard “Global Zero” Report
Yesterday the “Global Zero” report, chaired by retired Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright, unpersuasively argued that the U.S. should… Read More
Protect America, Not New START
Recently, Daryl Kimball and Tom Collina, both of the Arms Control Association, criticized the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) for taking hostage the implementations of… Read More
U.S. Remains Vulnerable to an EMP
An article recently published by the Los Angeles Times discusses how solar storms pose a grave threat to Earth. Mike Hapgood, a space weather scientist… Read More
U.S. House Considering East Coast Missile Defense
According to press reports, the House Armed Services Committee has preserved a provision in its draft of annual defense legislation that would place ballistic missile… Read More
Obama’s Policy Toward Missile Defense Draws the Ire of Nation’s Leading Defense Experts
In a recent National Journal article, three-quarters of defense experts interviewed opposed any attempt by the Obama Administration to scale back missile defense deployment in… Read More
President’s Plan Weakens at Least One Leg of Nuclear Triad
According to the U.S. Navy, America’s nuclear deterrent triad will be limping on one of its legs for over a decade because of the President’s… Read More
Presidential Whispers: Just Stating the Obvious or Revealing Future Plans?
Major Garrett, a White House correspondent for National Journal, recently authored a piece that seeks to shed light on President Obama’s true missile defense intentions… Read More
Obama to Medvedev: “Give Me Space” on Missile Defense
The United States does not need to protect itself from the threat of ballistic missiles right now. At least that is what President Obama suggests… Read More
A Game of Nuclear Chicken
A March 11 editorial The New York Times appears to support the idea that the nuclear arsenal of the United States acts not as a… Read More
Move Toward a Minimal Deterrence Posture Dangerous
The “Obama proposal for force reduction is foolhardy,” writes Bradley Thayer, professor of political science at Baylor University, in his recent commentary. His post is… Read More
White House Fantasies on “Nuclear Zero”
Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, has reiterated the Administration’s commitment to nuclear arms control at the Getting to Zero Conference… Read More
Salon’s “Big Neo-Con Lie”: Burning the Straw Men
The rest of the world has woken up to the fact that Iran is a problem on a large scale. Salon magazine, however, is determined… Read More
A Twisted View of Nuclear Parity
The United States should cut its nuclear weapons capabilities to contribute to deficit reduction, writes Michael O’Hanlon, director of research in foreign policy at the… Read More
Russia’s Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarine Goes to Sea Trials
It was reported early in October that Russia’s first fourth-generation nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine, the Severodvinsk, successfully conducted its first sea trials. In naval terms,… Read More
Commitment to Triad Trumps Commitment to Nuclear Zero
The Obama Administration’s commitment to maintain the U.S. strategic triad appears to be fading, writes Mark Schneider, former special assistant in the Office of the… Read More
Pro-CTBT Arguments Still Unsubstantiated
The recent op-ed by James Woolsey and Keith Payne “Reconsidering the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty” (CTBT) describes the treaty as “an ineffectual gesture that could… Read More
