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News From Antiwar.com On April 5 Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced that plans by the U.S. and its allies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to station land-based intermediate-range missiles posed a potential first-strike threat to Russia. One that would compel Russia to respond with what she identified as military and technical measures. She referred to frequent statements by Western officials in recent weeks about basing hitherto sea-based short- and intermediate-range missiles within striking distance of Russia’s air defenses. She warned specifica...

share Print A dispute over the efficacy of Russian-made Iskander missiles is being blamed for a dangerous rift between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian and the country’s military leadership. This is the Iskander missile system, photographed during a drill in Russia’s Kasputin Yar rocket testing site in 2018. Iskander missiles were developed by Russia and first entered service in that country’s military in 2006. An Iskander transporter on parade in Moscow in 2015 The missiles weigh 3.8 tons each and can fly at a speed of around 2.1 kilometers per second -- nearly three times the v...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Since the 1990s, every U.S. presidential administration has published a Nuclear Posture Review that explains the rationales behind its nuclear strategy, doctrine, and requested forces. The review envisioned and summarized here explicitly elucidates the dilemmas, uncertainties, and tradeoffs that come with current and possible alternative nuclear policies and forces. Published January 21, 2021 Executive Summary Ever since the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, every U.S. presidential administration has published a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that expl...

NBC Nov 19, 2019 Senior Trump administration official Mina Chang resigned from her job at the State Department two and a half hours after NBC News went to her spokesperson to ask about newly discovered false claims she had made about her charity work. NBC News had previously reported that Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability... NBC Nov 12, 2019 A senior Trump administration official has embellished her résumé with misleading claims about her professional background — even creating a fake Time m...