The Cost of a Nuclear Arsenal
Responses to an article in the “At the Brink” series, raising doubts about a huge overhaul of U.S. nuclear capacity.
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I toured the only nuclear missile submarine in the US open to the public. Take a look inside.
The USS Growler was once a top-secret US Navy submarine that patrolled the ocean's depths during the Cold War. Armed with nuclear missiles and ... class submarine program is projected to run ...
Undark19h
The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade
New nuclear-capable planes and upgrades to old equipment are coming. Will they deter warfare or lead to an arms race?
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Report to Congress on Nuclear-armed Sea-launched Cruise Missile
In 1991, at the end of the Cold War, President George H.W. Bush announced that the United States would withdraw all land-based tactical nuclear ... that the missile was “cost prohibitive and ...
Trillion dollar modernizing of America's nuclear arsenal underway
With undisguised pride, Los Alamos, N.M., the birthplace of the atomic bomb, announced on Oct. 2 the arrival of a new member ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists25d
The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. Making more is uncertain
The two most recent developments illustrate a critical tension in the US nuclear weapons program: New pit production demonstrates ... Another reason to cancel the Sentinel missile: the rising cost of ...
Military.com29d
South Korean Leader Says North Korea Wants US Attention by Showing Off Nuclear Might
13 disclosure of the nuclear site showed Kim’s defiance of U.S.-led efforts to eliminate his advancing nuclear program ... to draw attention from the United States and the international ...
Sydney Morning Herald26d
‘Cat and mouse’: What we know about Iran’s secretive nuclear program
In these Explainers, journey with us ... program would not aim to produce warheads for ballistic missiles, a task that could take significantly longer than six months. Nonetheless, a crude nuclear ...
Salon29d
"Escalation dominance" and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts
And our country accounted for 80 percent of the increase in nuclear weapons spending. The United States ... the cost-overrunning Sentinel system or upgrade the existing Minuteman III missiles.
National Interest on MSN19d
A Homeland Missile Defense Agenda for the Next President
The concern is not over a large-scale nuclear missile ... argument that the United States must have leak-proof defenses for ...
The Globe and Mail21d
North Korea blows up parts of inter-Korean roads as tensions with South Korea soar
South Korea’s military said it is bolstering its readiness and surveillance posture in co-ordination with the United States ... over North Korea’s nuclear program and other issues.
Foreign Affairs22d
Iran’s Nuclear Tipping Point
Iran’s nuclear program dates ... his government’s missile attack against Israel represented “only an iota of our power.” Two days later, he promised “an even more crushing” response against Israel and ...