Trump Wants Denuclearization Talks with Russia and China, Hopes for Defense Spending Cuts President Donald Trump said that he wants to restart nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China and that eventually he...
Unprotected: Troops Spent Decades Elbow-Deep in Dangerous Chemicals to Keep Nuclear Missiles Working The expectation that maintainers would simply accept being doused in known, deadly chemicals and continue to carry out their...
Force Protection Condition Levels (FPCON) Force Protection Condition (FPCON) is a system used by the Department of Defense to help assess and respond to terrorist...
DEFCON Levels DEFCON, short for Defense Readiness Condition or simply Defense Condition, is the U.S. military’s ranking system for defense...
Air Force, Congressional Focus Grows in Ongoing Missileer Cancer Study Investigations into potential toxic exposures of those who work with America's nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles...
North Korean Leader Kim Inspects Nuclear Facility as Pyongyang Pressures Trump Administration North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a facility that produces nuclear material and called for bolstering the country’s...
China Has Expanded its Nuclear Force and Strengthened Ties to Russia, the Pentagon Says A Pentagon report says China is expanding its nuclear force, has increased military pressure against Taiwan and has...
Senior UK Commander Warns of 'Third Nuclear Age' The head of Britain’s armed forces has warned that the world stands at the cusp of a “third nuclear age,’’ defined by...
Iran Defies International Pressure, Increasing Its Stockpile of Near Weapons-Grade Uranium, UN Says The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of Oct. 26, Iran has 401.9 pounds of uranium enriched up to...
The Kremlin Has Revised Its Nuclear Policy. Does that Make the Use of Atomic Weapons More Likely? Better known as Russia's nuclear doctrine, the revamped version that was signed by President Vladimir Putin spells out the...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
