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Hagel warns NATO still facing dangers

WASHINGTON – Russia’s military moves in Ukraine “shatter the myth” that the end of the Cold War meant an end to insecurity, at least in Europe, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday. ...

DATE: May 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Commanders fired in nuke missile cheating scandal

Air Force officials called the moves unprecedented in the history of the intercontinental ballistic missile force, which has been rocked by a string of security lapses over the past year, in...

DATE: Mar 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuke crew woes grow worse

WASHINGTON – Failings exposed last spring at a U.S. nuclear missile base, reflecting what one officer called “rot” in the ranks, were worse than originally reported, according to Air Force d...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hagel proposing to reshape military forces

WASHINGTON – Looking beyond America’s post-Sept. 11 wars, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Monday proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing bases and reshaping force...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study casts doubt on West’s Afghan plan

WASHINGTON – A new assessment of Afghanistan’s future says the country could revert to a terrorist haven unless U.S. and international partners underwrite a larger – and more expensive – Afg...

DATE: Feb 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Released Afghan prisoners could be targeted

WASHINGTON – If any of the 65 Afghan militants who were released from a former U.S. prison in Afghanistan return to the battlefield, they risk being hunted down by U.S. forces, a Pentagon of...

DATE: Feb 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuke reform drive features ideas tried 5 years ago

WASHINGTON – Five years ago the Air Force considered a series of proposals to boost morale and fix performance and security lapses in its nuclear missile corps, according to internal emails ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Air Force ties more to scandal

WASHINGTON – The number of Air Force service members implicated in a scandal involving alleged cheating on tests of nuclear missile launch operations has roughly doubled from the 34 initiall...

DATE: Jan 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Hagel ordering full review of nuclear force

WASHINGTON – With public trust and safety at stake, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered immediate actions Thursday to define the depth of trouble inside the nation’s nuclear force, which h...

DATE: Jan 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuclear security in jeopardy?

Problems may be linked to Cold War era

DATE: Jan 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Study cites ‘dangerous weak link’ in nuke security

The study by the Nuclear Threat Initiative said Mexico, Sweden, Ukraine, Vietnam, Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary have removed all or most of the weapons-usable nuclear materials on ...

DATE: Jan 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Nuke troubles run deep

WASHINGTON – Trouble inside the Air Force’s nuclear missile force runs deeper and wider than officials have let on. An unpublished study for the Air Force, obtained by The Associa...

DATE: Nov 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World