Nuclear Weapons

^{Stephen C. Meyer
April 25, 2023
National Defense, Technology}

Time to Neutralize North Korea’s Missile Threat

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 25, 2023
National Defense, Technology}

Missile defense experts have long advocated a multi-layered approach to missile defense because of the difficulty of destroying an ICBM in flight. Yet, currently the United States relies on only one layer of homeland missile defense, a ground-based system of anti-missile interceptors based in Alaska and California. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

Next Memorial Day, Remember the Atomic Veterans Who Died for Their Country

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 10, 2021
Human Exceptionalism}

I dread Memorial Day. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t honor our military heroes who died for their country. To the contrary, I hold them in the highest esteem. It’s just that I hate having to stifle the rage I experience every year as that important commemoration day rolls around. Read More ›

Collision of nuclei of elementary particles, image of nuclear reactions in the model. An explosion with the release of a huge amount of heat and power and light. Generative AI

^{John Wohlstetter
June 12, 2013
Foreign Policy}

Who Knows Who Has The Bomb? Not Us

_{John Wohlstetter
June 12, 2013
Foreign Policy}

The stunning revelation that a segment of the intelligence community believes that North Korea already has a nuclear weapon compact enough to be placed upon a ballistic missile shows anew the limits of what intelligence agencies can determine as to what goes on in closed societies. What matters from a standpoint of intelligence acuity is less whether Pyongyang can put Read More ›