Missiles & Space

  • US missile defense system 'a problem for Russia'

    Russian Prime Minister Vladmir Putin says U.S. plans for a missile defense system is the main obstacle for reaching a new deal with the U.S.

    January 11, 2010 - By Anonymous

  • ICBMs Without Nukes: USA's Best New Weapon?

    The Department of Defense is designing non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, which could be operational in less than two years. Packed with conventional explosives, they would be able to strike anywhere on the planet within one hour.

    November 4, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Obama chooses missile defense critic Phillip Coyle for advisory post

    President Obama today nominated of Philip Coyle, a leading critic of Bush administration missile defense schemes, to be the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the White House

    October 29, 2009 - By Anonymous

  • Andrea Mitchell Reports

    Following a series of revelations about Iran's nuclear program, Joe speaks with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and gives his analysis of the events. 

    Watch the full segment after the jump.

    October 2, 2009 - By Ploughshares Fund

  • Lou Dobbs

    Joe appears on Lou Dobb's Face Off to debate Jed Babbin, Editor of Human Events and former United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense on President Obama's European missile defense plan.  

    Video after the break.

    September 24, 2009 - By Kelly Bronk

  • Newsweek: Missile defense wasn't the answer

    "By canceling plans to station antiballistic-missile systems in Poland and the Czech Re-public, President Obama has traded fantasy for reality," writes Fareed Zakaria, editor of  Newsweek In

    September 21, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Missile defense changes reflect military's concerns

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    September 21, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Ploughshares Fund Experts on Obama's Missile Defense Plan

    Ploughshares Fund and our grantees have been at the forefront of the debate over missile defense, developing expert analyses, testifying before Congress, and raising questions.  Read what they are saying today in the wake of President Obama's announced decision to fundamentally revamp the sy

    September 18, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • Obama cancels flawed missile defense program

    "The Obama administration's decision announced today to cancel the deeply flawed antimissile systems in Eastern Europe is sound policy based on the best intelligence and technical assessments," writes Joe Cirincione in Foreign Policy.

    September 18, 2009 - By Deborah Bain

  • The New Defense Realism

    The Obama administration's decision announced today to cancel the deeply flawed antimissile systems in Eastern Europe is sound policy based on the best intelligence and technical assessments. U.S. President Barack Obama replaces a system that did not work against a threat that did not exist with weapons that can defend against the real Iranian missile capability.

    September 16, 2009 - By Joe Cirincione