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Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

No let-up in China nuclear weapons expansion, Stratcom general says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to chair a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 25, 2022. Putin is raising fears that he has become more reckless, more committed to restoring the USSR, perhaps more likely to set off a world-altering war. There's no way to determine from a distance whether the Russian president is becoming unstable or if he is simply preying on the West's fears. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin nuclear threat part of new escalation policy

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this June 5, 2019, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, enter a hall for the talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Charles Richard, U.S. Strategic Command chief: Nuclear war with China or Russia ‘real possibility’

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said that he has "seen no indications of any compromise" in the security of America's nuclear stockpile rising out of the SolarWinds hack, which the intelligence community believe is linked to the Russian government. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Top admiral: SolarWinds computer hack didn’t harm U.S.-based nukes

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2009, photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

U.S. military deletes, apologizes for New Year’s Eve bomb tweet

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 25, 2014, file photo, an inert Minuteman 3 missile is seen in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. Here's a question rarely raised before Donald Trump ran for the White House: If the president ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike, could anyone stop him? The answer is no. Not the Congress. Not his secretary of defense. And by design, not the military officers who would be duty-bound to execute the order. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Retired US general says nuclear launch order can be refused

By ROBERT BURNS and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

The shift to space and information warfare is part of a major military reorganization that has been underway in China for the past several years. It's designed to transform the once ground forces-heavy PLA into a high-technology force.

Inside the Ring: China preps for space warfare

By Bill Gertz

Inside the Ring: Cecil Haney backs Iran deal

By Bill Gertz

This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows Navy Vice Adm. Tim Giardina in a Nov. 11, 2011, photo. Giardina, fired last year as No. 2 commander of U.S. nuclear forces may have made his own counterfeit $500 poker chips with paint and stickers to feed a gambling habit that eventually saw him banned from an entire network of casinos, according to a criminal investigative report obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

Fired nuke commander linked to fake poker chips

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Swedish corvette HMS Stockholm patrols Jungfrufjarden in the Stockholm archipelago, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Sweden's biggest submarine hunt since the dying days of the Soviet Union has put countries around the Baltic Sea on edge, with Latvia's foreign minister calling the incident a potential "game changer" in the region. (AP Photo/TT News Agency, Anders Wiklund) SWEDEN OUT

Inside the Ring: B-52s buzz over Europe, and Swedes hunt for Russian sub

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Three B-2 bombers completed a tour of duty in Guam this week, as tensions remained high between the U.S. and China. (Department of Defense via Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: B-2 bombers’ ‘messages’

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Jason Eisenberg co-stars in Zombieland from Sony Home Entertainment and now available in Blu-ray.

Pentagon has plan for ‘Counter-Zombie Dominance’ during zombie apocalypse

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Maj. Gen. Michael Carey. (Screen grab from http://www.af.mil/)

Air Force general in charge of ICBMs to be fired

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

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General: Prioritize nuclear upgrades in budget

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state for verification, has said that "we are committed to continuing a step-by-step process to reduce the overall number of nuclear weapons." (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Gen. Kevin P. Chilton (Courtesy of stratcom.mil)

Show of strength urged for cyberwar

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Inside the Ring

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

China blocks U.S. from cyber warfare

By Bill Gertz