by Nathan Daniels | Mar 6, 2014 | Monitor
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, sign the newly completed ‘New START’ Treaty. – April 8, 2010 – Prague, Czech Republic Earlier this week, Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces carried out a test-fire of an...
by Nathan Daniels | Feb 20, 2014 | Monitor
What We Are Reading: Kiev’s Brief Truce Shatters in Bursts of Gunfire Andrew E. Kramer and Andrew Higgins / New York Times Ukraine’s descent into a spiral of violence accelerated on Thursday as protesters and riot police officers used firearms in a clash as opposition...
by Nathan Daniels | Feb 19, 2014 | Monitor
Back in January, I wrote about an event I attended hosted by the Stimson Center, Benefit or Burden? The Future of U.S. Tactical Nuclear Weapons. During this event, Former Air Force Chief of Staff, General Norton Schwartz, along with former Ambassador to Germany and...
by Derek Bolton | Dec 17, 2012 | Monitor
North Korea’s recent satellite should come as no surprise, given Pyongyang’s repeated attempts to acquire such technology in the face of international condemnation, but the announcement is nonetheless unnerving. Still, rather than intensified pressure and aggressive...
by Robert Beckhusen | Sep 11, 2012 | Monitor
A missile interceptor fires during a test in Hawaii on Nov. 6, 2007. Photo: Navy Updated, 6:17 p.m. For years, the Pentagon has tried to find a means to shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles that could one day be launched from North Korea and Iran....
