by Dave Patterson | Apr 17, 2024 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
There are reasons for concern regarding Iran’s desire for nuclear weapons – a priority for Tehran. Iran is working hard to develop nuclear weapons, and the flawed 2015 nuclear agreement by the Obama administration did not deter Iran from its path – nor could it...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 17, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Are President Vladimir Putin’s public threats about using nuclear weapons credible? The prudent answer is that whenever the leader of Russia talks about using nuclear weapons, his words must be taken seriously. Publicly, the Biden administration tends to downplay such...
by Dave Patterson | Oct 26, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
What will the United States do with China as a nuclear peer? The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is rapidly achieving that status with a nuclear warhead development and building program moving faster than anticipated. At the same time, a recently released...
by Joe Schaeffer | Jun 11, 2022 | Articles, Biden Administration, Opinion
“Scranton Joe” never saw himself morphing into a Georgia peanut farmer from the 1970s wearing a sweater in the Oval Office and urging Americans to turn down their thermostats. He wanted to be draped in a “transformative” cloak, granted the same framing afforded to the...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 7, 2022 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
The Ukraine conflict raises the issue of the United States’ critical need to modernize its nuclear weapons. Recently, in response to economic sanctions placed on Russia by the US and its European allies, Vladimir Putin put the Kremlin’s nuclear capability...