North Korean Denuclearization Potentially Moving in ‘Positive Direction’: Gen. Hyten
Colin Clark | Breaking Defense
Gen. John Hyten, the man who might wage nuclear war should North Korea strike, says the prospects for “the potential denuclearization” of North Korea are moving “in a positive direction” since the Singapore summit.
US Air Force Terminates ICBM Test After ‘Anomaly’
AFP
The US Air Force had to abort a test flight Tuesday of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile after it developed an “anomaly,” officials said.
Lawmakers Override Pentagon on Classifying Missile Defense Test Plans
Jason Sherman | Inside Defense
Lawmakers have rolled back a Pentagon gambit to classify missile defense flight test plans by including a provision in the final version of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill explicitly requiring the Missile Defense Agency to annually make public a version of scheduled test events for the $180 billion Ballistic Missile Defense System.
U.S. Says it Expects N.Korea to Uphold Promise to Give Up Nuclear Arms
Lesley Wroughton | Reuters
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it expects Pyongyang to keep its commitment made at a June leaders’ summit to give up its nuclear arms and would press southeast Asian nations during meetings this week to maintain sanctions against North Korea.
John Bolton Brings a Nuclear Superhawk Into The White House
Spencer Ackerman| Daily Beast
John Bolton has quietly gotten his very own John Bolton, and his name is Tim Morrison. Morrison possesses a hostility to negotiated restrictions on U.S. nuclear weapons that rivals Bolton’s own, as well as an expertise on nuclear issues undisputed by even his harshest critics.
The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States
Jeffrey Lewis
“The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue.” So begins this sobering report on the findings of the National Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to investigate the horrific events of the next three days.