Will Iran Soon Have Nuclear Weapons?

The world has now learned that Iran has been secretly building a second uranium enrichment facility.  There has long been suspicion that Iran’s original uranium enrichment facility could be used for making weapons grade uranium.  Iran has strongly denied that this is the case, stating that their only goal was to produce enriched uranium for [...]

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Why Obama Scrapped Bush’s European Missile Defense Plan

Defending a country against an attack by ballistic missiles is very difficult. That was clearly demonstrated during the first Gulf War when Saddam Hussein started firing ballistic missiles at Israel.  Remember that? The U.S. quickly moved in Patriot antimissile systems and they did a fine job of hitting and destroying the missiles that were in [...]

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The Bush Supremacy – A Devious President and a Dangerous Precedent

In the weeks and months leading up to the Iraq War President Bush enunciated a new U.S. defense policy that endorsed the concept of preemptive strikes against potential enemies. He justified this new approach by saying that the experience of the 9/11 terrorist attacks had shown that the U.S. could not afford to stand [...]

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