The Syrian Civil War and WMDs
On September 5, 2013, Senior Fellow on State and Non-State Threats Charles Blair spoke to staff at the Government Accountability Office in Washington, DC on the current conflict in Syria and the use of...
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Avoiding Needless Wars, Part 9: Iraq
The two reasons given for invading Iraq in 2003 were baseless: Saddam Hussein’s WMDs were illusory, as were his connections to al Qaeda. While this needless war is often attributed to an intelligence...
View ArticleArmy Issues New Counter-WMD Doctrine
Countering weapons of mass destruction is “an enduring mission of the U.S. Armed forces,” the US Army said last week in a new doctrinal publication. Counter-WMD operations are defined as actions taken...
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A Rare Look Inside a Russian ICBM Base
It’s relatively easy to observe Russian missile bases from above. It’s much harder to do it from inside. But in September, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a rare video of a command exercise...
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Environmental Assessment Reveals New Details About the Air Force’s ICBM...
Any time a US federal agency proposes a major action that “has the potential to cause significant effects on the natural or human environment,” they must complete an Environmental Impact Statement, or...
View ArticleOLC: President May Withhold WMD Info from Congress
Despite an explicit statutory requirement to keep Congress “fully and currently informed” about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the President may withhold proliferation-related...
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New Environmental Assessment Reveals Fascinating Alternatives to Land-Based...
A new Air Force environmental assessment reveals that it considered basing ICBMs in underground railway tunnels––or possibly underwater. Map of the ICBM missile fields contained within the Air...
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