On the radar: Military option “a fiction,” negotiations best; Congressional meddling; Luers and Pickering on Iran talks; Intra-triad budget competition; Mousavian on the enrichment question; Heinonen on verifying Iran’s program; Russia’s ICBM test; and Congressional support for diplomacy.
On the radar: Amano: Iran dealing coming soon; Compromise and buying time; HASC stuck in the Cold War; NATO’s missed opportunities; Senate passes Iran sanctions; What to look for at Baghdad; House rolls back nuclear labs oversight; Avoiding war; and Tell the Post where HASC can stick those missiles.
On the radar: Tac nukes staying; BMD in the interim; Opening bid for Baghdad; Never a strategic necessity; The problems with reciprocity and disparity; NATO’s declared BMD capability; HASC nuclear amendments; House moves to restrict New START; MOX risks; and The Avengers and nuclear weapons.
On the radar: Cooperate instead of agitate; Changing NATO’s nuclear policy; Invest in troops, not nukes; Nuke spending in the House; Cartwright’s doctrinal shift; Senators clash over Iran policy; a Nuke by any other name; Senate divided on East Coast site; Preserving the consensus on Iran; House moves the redline; Graphing reductions; and What is going on in this picture?
On the radar: What’s next for the Iran talks; Fewer, safer; Cartwright and de-alerting; Senate moving on Nth round of sanctions; Dagan and Woolsey call for total sanctions; Airborne Laser still a bad idea; RAND on Iran diplomacy; Gates on Iran; Triad and triad again; and Pick the site for East Coast missile defense.
On the radar: 900 warheads, no launch-ready alert, cut ICBMs; Veto threat for NDAA nuclear provisions; Iran to launch satellite next week; Kodak’s bomb-grade uranium; China presses North not to test; Not good for New Mexicans; Appropriators vs. authorizers on BMD; and Lost meets The Hunt for Red October.
On the radar: A $6 billion boondoggle; Options for budget savings; HASC micromanages the arsenal; Scene setting for Baghdad; Admin on returning nukes to ROK; Cartwright calls for nuke cuts; Kyl’s case for missile defense; Iran and the IAEA; and 25 years after landing in Red Square.
On the radar: New START held hostage; Sinking the Navy with nuclear excess; NATO to declare interim BMD capability; Framework of a deal; the Parchin chamber; Nuclear politics; Polish and Norwegian FMs on tac nukes; Extended deterrence after TNW; and Oversized arsenals risk nuclear famine.