An independent panel recently provided a boost to a coolly received Pentagon initiative that would convert some long-range, submarine-launched ballistic missiles to deliver conventional warheads instead of nuclear ones.
The author proposes expanding U.S. cooperative threat reduction programs to address the threat from the Soviet Union's system to defeat bubonic plagure.
The author argues that U.S. plans to cooperate with India on space technology "risks repeating in India the same errors that previously allowed damaging U.S. space technology transfers to China."
The International Monitoring System, an international network of seismographic sensors developed to verify compliance with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, has agreed to release seismographic data that could be useful for Tsunami detection and early warning. However, the data release is on an experimental basis because there is still disagreement among the participants in the IMS as to whether the IMS should be providing early warning data.
A Bush administration program intended to guard against bioterrorism could actually make it more likely that the United States would be threatened with novel biological agents for which there are no vaccines or other defenses.
The authors argue for increased funding for cooperative threat reduction programs to reduce the threat from Soviet-era biological weapon stockpiles.
In a recently-released report, the General Accounting Office (GAO) is calling on the United States to do more to forestall potential threats from shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles.
Karen Yourish summarizes recent developments with both India and Pakistan's nuclear programs.
Phillip Coyle, a former top U.S. Defense Department official argues that the Bush administration?s plan to field a national missile defense system by September 2004 has ?lowered the bar on the acceptable standards for an effective military system."
Five years after first publicly testing nuclear weapons, India stands at a critical point in its strategic path. It faces today a crucial choice between maintaining a minimal deterrent and expanding its arsenal so as to sustain a Cold War-style posture toward its nuclear adversaries.