Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 7, 2010



Obama Curbs U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development, Usage Policy -- Global Scurity Newswire

The Obama administration today issued its Nuclear Posture Review, swearing off creation of new nuclear weapons and significantly limiting the circumstances under which such armaments could be used, according to news reports (see GSN, March 24).

The document pledges the United States not to conduct nuclear strikes on non-nuclear states, a change in policy from the Bush administration stance that allowed for an atomic response to a biological or chemical strike, Reuters reported (Stewart/Spetalnick, Reuters, April 6).

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Nuke Review: Deploying, De-MIRVing, and De-Targeting -- The Danger Room

U.S. Reserves Right To Deploy Previously Tested Nukes -- Defense News

Navy Changes Or US Power Fades -- DoD Buzz

Design & Preparations Continue for the USA’s New CVN-21 Super-Carrier -- Defense Industry Daily

LCS Alternative Weekly -- New Wars

Cost estimate for F-35 to soar, Pentagon says -- Star Telegram (Hat Tip: ELP Defens(c)e Blog)

DoD Begins New F-35 Cost Estimate -- Defense News

The Growing Threat Of The U.S. Army Air Force -- Strategy Page

Schedule of Russian Bulava test launches depends on summer tests - Popovkin -- ITAR TASS

Russia to orbit 7 new Glonass satellites in 2010 -- RIA Novosti

DPRK paper accuses U.S. of exaggerating threat of DPRK's missiles -- Xinhuanet

The Economic Soft Power-Military Hard Power Linkage -- Defense Tech

Educating the Media -- Armchair Generalist

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