POLITICO
Get the Morning Defense newsletter
Email
Sign Up
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Presented by
With Lara Seligman and Connor O’Brien
Editor’s Note: Morning Defense is a free version of POLITICO Pro Defense s morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro.
“Especially during times of tension, verifiable limits on Russia’s intercontinental-range nuclear weapons are vitally important,” Blinken said. “Extending the New START Treaty makes the United States, U.S. allies and partners, and the world safer. An unconstrained nuclear competition would endanger us all.”
Background: New START, which was negotiated by the Obama administration, places caps on U.S. and Russian “strategic” nuclear weapons.
The Trump administration wanted to replace it with a treaty that included China, as well as Russia’s so-called tactical nuclear weapons. But China rejected joining the talks, and Russia wanted a clean five-year extension.
Shortly after taking office, President Biden announced he would pursue that clean five-year extension, which Russian President Vladimir Putin
A reshuffling of House subcommittees to boost oversight of military tech February 3 The House Armed Services Committee announced the creation of a new Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Subcommittee. (Al Drago/Getty Images) WASHINGTON The House Armed Services Committee is creating a new subcommittee for the next session of Congress as a way to focus energy on the oversight of the military’s use of digital technologies, lawmakers announced Wednesday. The new Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Subcommittee, which will be led by Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., will cover cybersecurity, cyber operations, cyber forces, information technology and systems, science and technology programs and policy, research and development, artificial intelligence, electromagnetic spectrum policy, electronic warfare policy and software acquisition policy.
Biden must heed the threat Iran poses Print this article
We have a lot going on in our homeland right now, and, as always, our adversaries around the world are watching closely.
Over the past month, Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, has made known its clear intention to create a nuclear weapon. Most recently, Tehran bluntly told the world’s nuclear agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, it is ramping up the production of weapons-grade nuclear material. The IAEA, in turn, has told the United Nations Security Council that Iran is blatantly upgrading its nuclear weapons capability and doing so “in plain sight.”
By Alberto Garcia
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez
During the past 19 years, Congress Loretta Sanchez has blazed a trail through the halls of the US Capitol as a recognized expert on military and security issues.
First elected to Congress in 1996, Ms. Sanchez, a Democrat, defeated 6-term Congressman Bob Dornan, a conservative Republican. Dornan was accused in his previous campaign of posting signs in Spanish at polling places on Election Day warning voters they would be asked for citizenship papers by immigration officials before voting.
Congresswoman Sanchez sat down this week with La Prensa San Diego in Barrio Logan for an exclusive interview.