William Hartung, a defense specialist at the Center for International Policy, told Government Executive that the report seemed "to acknowledge that cutting back on the Navy's desired ability to project force globally would be manageable. ...

Pretty much whatever they asked for was given, because we were at war,” says William Hartung of the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. “In absolute terms, military spending is higher than it has been since world war two – it is ...

“The war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with terrorism, was a huge price to pay to get rid of one dictator,” William Hartung, a defense expert at the New America Foundation, told AFP. “And whereas in the past the US has financed wars in part with tax ...

The continuing crisis in Japan from the near-meltdown of the Fukushima reactor is terrifying in its own right. But it also raises the question of another, even deadlier nuclear threat.

The evacuations now going on in Japan would pale in comparison to what would be necessary if just one 100-kiloton nuclear bomb were to go off near a major city - not to mention the immediate deaths caused by the bomb, which could reach into the hundreds of thousands. And a 100-kiloton bomb is among the smallest in the U.S. or Russian arsenals.