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(Archived document, may contain errors) RED HORIZONS: THE U.S. RESPONSE TO SOVIET MILITARY GAINS IN SPACE By Robin Ranger

This year, the Trump Administration launched a comprehensive re-examination of U.S. nuclear weapons policy. The process, known as the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), will result in a report to the President outlining steps to ensure that “the U.S. nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, effective, reliable and appropriately tailored to deter 21st-century threats and reassure our allies.”

Russian Ambassador Antonov told Newsweek secret talks ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, but "it is impossible to resolve the current situation in the same way."

This week the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for General Joseph F. Dunford Jr., who has been nominated to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If confirmed, he would be the principal military adviser to the President. Currently the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General Dunford has had a long and distinguished military career, and the Senate is expected to confirm him relatively easily.

The Pentagon is taking specific steps to strengthen missile defense networking with NATO allies throughout Europe and increase multinational collaboration in support of Ukraine.

"If the Cuban missile crisis has taught us anything, it is the value of reducing nuclear risk, not brandishing it," a White House spokesperson told Newsweek.

"Plan A" is a hypothetical yet eerily plausible scenario imagined by nuclear weapons experts. It shows 91 million deaths and injuries in hours.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues to escalate, the demon of nuclear weapons seems to be still hovering around the white house in Reykjavik as the 1986 summit, making strange noises.

This is an emergency. Right now, we’re closer to a cataclysmic nuclear war than at any other time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. One assessment - Norman Solomon for Antiwar.com Original

Ukraine war shows us that old nuclear strategies won't keep Americans safe as rocket artillery, drones and savvy change battlefields. Biden must wake up.