Iran, Obama, Boehner and Netanyahu
By Caroline Glick • RealClearPolitics Iran has apparently produced an intercontinental ballistic missile whose range far exceeds the distance between Iran and Israel, and between Iran…
Nuclear Coercion
by Peter Huessy Cutting $70 billion over the next ten years from America’s nuclear deterrent is the goal of a number of proponents of global zero. The cut would be…
Missile Defense Priorities for 2015
by Travis Korson, Senior Fellow Introduction As Congress debates the 2015 Defense Appropriations bill, it is important that members fully fund key components of a layered Ballistic Missile Defense System…
The Gathering Storm in Iran
by Peter Huessy The United States and its allies will soon hear whether –once again—Iran will end its nuclear weapons search, masquerading now as a nuclear energy program. What…
What? Me Worry?
Why nuclear deterrent modernization is critical to our longterm security. by Peter Huessy The newest from the Washington Post’s Walter Pincus (“Old Nukes and Old Thinking”, The Washington Post, November…
NYT: The Arms Control Community is Upset
by Peter Huessy The arms control community is upset says William Broad of the New York Times. The administration in whom they had trusted to begin the process of eliminating…
No Matter the Arms Control Lipstick, It’s Still a Pig
by Peter Huessy • Family Security Matters It has become a common assertion that future planned strategic modernization of the United States is unaffordable. The latest…
Are We Willing to Defend Ourselves?
by Peter Huessy • Gatestone Institute The U.S. Air Force has just completed a review of the ballistic missile threats to the U.S.: China is building…
Nuclear Deterrence is Job #1
By Peter R. Huessy On September 18th, a senior group of professional nuclear deterrent experts gathered in Washington, D.C. to hear the top nuclear deterrent and policy leaders in the…
Obama Reportedly Blocks Israel Missile Shipment
US administration officials stop missile transfer, order all future transfers to be scrutinized in sign of further cooling ties. by Ari Yashar • Arutz Sheva A…
Israel’s Iron Dome Missile-Defense System is an Ironclad Success
by Uzi Rubin • Reuters While the troops of Israel’s Air Defense Command are blasting Grad and Fajr rockets shot from Gaza out of the sky…
Missile “Diplomacy”
U.S. Not Connecting the Dots by Peter Huessy There is presently concern that programs to prevent short- and medium-range ballistic missiles from reaching Europe will be delayed under pressure to make…
The Diplomacy of Missile Defense
by Peter Huessy The long thirty one year debate over missile defenses for the United States begun with the President Reagan announcement of the strategic defense initiative in March 1983…
The Missile Defense Deniers
by Peter Huessy On Sunday June 22, high over the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the U.S. Air Force 30th Space Wing, the Joint Functional Component Command,…
ASP’s Nuclear Fairy Tales and Misconceptions
by Peter Huessy Despite the fact that our Triad of forces has been a nuclear umbrella that has kept the nuclear powers from going to war against each other for…