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The CDC is taking a proactive stance and establishing a center that will use forecasting and outbreak analytics to guide public health decision-making.

Patty-Jane is the policy analyst for nuclear deterrence and missile defense at The Heritage Foundation. The U.S. military test fires an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Vandenberg Air Force Base early on May 3, 2017. RINGO CHIU / AFP / Getty Images Key Takeaways Responsiveness does not equate to being just a breadth away from accidental launch; it means that adversaries know that the United States can respond quickly. In practice, the pres...

As Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev well understood, smaller nuclear weapons with short flight times make nuclear war more likely. That is why they prioritized such systems for elimination through arms control agreements. Sadly, our current nuclear weapons plan — which emphasizes so-called low-yield, stealthy, “limited” nuclear war-fighting weapons delivered on ambiguous platforms such as cruise missiles — ignores that wisdom and needlessly risks returning us to the dark, dangerous days ...