Robert Burns, The Associated Press


  • Pentagon has no plans to boost size of nuclear arsenal
    Pentagon has no plans to boost size of nuclear arsenal

    The Pentagon has no current plans to increase the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In fact, it can barely sustain the existing force, which is decades old and is in some respects almost decrepit.

  • Trump: US nuke force must be in ‘tiptop shape’
    Trump: US nuke force must be in ‘tiptop shape’

    President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants the U.S. nuclear arsenal in “tiptop shape” but has not asked that it be greatly expanded.

  • Trump misfired on tweet about Iranian missile launch
    Trump misfired on tweet about Iranian missile launch

    When President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that Iran had “just test-fired” a missile, he seemed to know something the rest of the government did not. Turns out, he did not.

  • Mattis: US is not intimidated by North Korea
    Mattis: US is not intimidated by North Korea

    He inspected a mock-up nuclear warhead, but there was no Kim Jong Un lookalike posing for photographs. He chatted with nuclear missile launch officers in their underground command post, but there was no talk of unleashing nuclear hell on North Korea.

  • Mattis disputes reports of being at odds with Trump
    Mattis disputes reports of being at odds with Trump

    Where some see Defense Secretary Jim Mattis distancing himself from President Donald Trump on North Korea and other big issues, Mattis sees “someone’s rather rich imagination” at work creating a conflict where he insists none exists.

  • Mattis: ISIS militants caught in Iraq-Syria military vise
    Mattis: ISIS militants caught in Iraq-Syria military vise

    Expelled from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, Islamic State militants are now trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.

  • Missile strike on North Korea an unlikely response to aggression
    Missile strike on North Korea an unlikely response to aggression

    A pre-emptive military strike may be among the “pretty severe things” President Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it’s a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options.

  • Pre-emptive US strike on North Korea could be ‘catastrophic’
    Pre-emptive US strike on North Korea could be ‘catastrophic’

    A pre-emptive military strike may be among the “pretty severe things” President Donald Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it’s a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options.

  • North Korean missile advances put new stress on US defenses
    North Korean missile advances put new stress on US defenses

    North Korea’s newly demonstrated missile muscle puts Alaska within range of potential attack and stresses the Pentagon’s missile defenses like never before. Even more worrisome, it may be only a matter of time before North Korea mates an even longer-range ICBM with a nuclear warhead, putting all of the United States at risk.

  • US nuclear inspection results now concealed
    US nuclear inspection results now concealed

    The Pentagon has thrown a cloak of secrecy over assessments of the safety and security of its nuclear weapons operations, a part of the military with a history of periodic inspection failures and lapses in morale.

  • Pentagon has no plans to boost size of nuclear arsenal
    Pentagon has no plans to boost size of nuclear arsenal

    The Pentagon has no current plans to increase the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In fact, it can barely sustain the existing force, which is decades old and is in some respects almost decrepit.

  • Trump: US nuke force must be in ‘tiptop shape’
    Trump: US nuke force must be in ‘tiptop shape’

    President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants the U.S. nuclear arsenal in “tiptop shape” but has not asked that it be greatly expanded.

  • Trump misfired on tweet about Iranian missile launch
    Trump misfired on tweet about Iranian missile launch

    When President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that Iran had “just test-fired” a missile, he seemed to know something the rest of the government did not. Turns out, he did not.

  • Mattis: US is not intimidated by North Korea
    Mattis: US is not intimidated by North Korea

    He inspected a mock-up nuclear warhead, but there was no Kim Jong Un lookalike posing for photographs. He chatted with nuclear missile launch officers in their underground command post, but there was no talk of unleashing nuclear hell on North Korea.

  • Mattis disputes reports of being at odds with Trump
    Mattis disputes reports of being at odds with Trump

    Where some see Defense Secretary Jim Mattis distancing himself from President Donald Trump on North Korea and other big issues, Mattis sees “someone’s rather rich imagination” at work creating a conflict where he insists none exists.

  • Mattis: ISIS militants caught in Iraq-Syria military vise
    Mattis: ISIS militants caught in Iraq-Syria military vise

    Expelled from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, Islamic State militants are now trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.

  • Missile strike on North Korea an unlikely response to aggression
    Missile strike on North Korea an unlikely response to aggression

    A pre-emptive military strike may be among the “pretty severe things” President Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it’s a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options.

  • Pre-emptive US strike on North Korea could be ‘catastrophic’
    Pre-emptive US strike on North Korea could be ‘catastrophic’

    A pre-emptive military strike may be among the “pretty severe things” President Donald Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it’s a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options.

  • North Korean missile advances put new stress on US defenses
    North Korean missile advances put new stress on US defenses

    North Korea’s newly demonstrated missile muscle puts Alaska within range of potential attack and stresses the Pentagon’s missile defenses like never before. Even more worrisome, it may be only a matter of time before North Korea mates an even longer-range ICBM with a nuclear warhead, putting all of the United States at risk.

  • US nuclear inspection results now concealed
    US nuclear inspection results now concealed

    The Pentagon has thrown a cloak of secrecy over assessments of the safety and security of its nuclear weapons operations, a part of the military with a history of periodic inspection failures and lapses in morale.

  • Pentagon has no plans to boost size of nuclear arsenal
    Pentagon has no plans to boost size of nuclear arsenal

    The Pentagon has no current plans to increase the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. In fact, it can barely sustain the existing force, which is decades old and is in some respects almost decrepit.

  • Trump: US nuke force must be in ‘tiptop shape’
    Trump: US nuke force must be in ‘tiptop shape’

    President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants the U.S. nuclear arsenal in “tiptop shape” but has not asked that it be greatly expanded.

  • Trump misfired on tweet about Iranian missile launch
    Trump misfired on tweet about Iranian missile launch

    When President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that Iran had “just test-fired” a missile, he seemed to know something the rest of the government did not. Turns out, he did not.

  • Mattis: US is not intimidated by North Korea
    Mattis: US is not intimidated by North Korea

    He inspected a mock-up nuclear warhead, but there was no Kim Jong Un lookalike posing for photographs. He chatted with nuclear missile launch officers in their underground command post, but there was no talk of unleashing nuclear hell on North Korea.

  • Mattis disputes reports of being at odds with Trump
    Mattis disputes reports of being at odds with Trump

    Where some see Defense Secretary Jim Mattis distancing himself from President Donald Trump on North Korea and other big issues, Mattis sees “someone’s rather rich imagination” at work creating a conflict where he insists none exists.

  • Mattis: ISIS militants caught in Iraq-Syria military vise
    Mattis: ISIS militants caught in Iraq-Syria military vise

    Expelled from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, Islamic State militants are now trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.

  • Missile strike on North Korea an unlikely response to aggression
    Missile strike on North Korea an unlikely response to aggression

    A pre-emptive military strike may be among the “pretty severe things” President Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it’s a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options.

  • Pre-emptive US strike on North Korea could be ‘catastrophic’
    Pre-emptive US strike on North Korea could be ‘catastrophic’

    A pre-emptive military strike may be among the “pretty severe things” President Donald Trump says he is considering for North Korea, but it’s a step so fraught with risk that it ranks as among the unlikeliest options.

  • North Korean missile advances put new stress on US defenses
    North Korean missile advances put new stress on US defenses

    North Korea’s newly demonstrated missile muscle puts Alaska within range of potential attack and stresses the Pentagon’s missile defenses like never before. Even more worrisome, it may be only a matter of time before North Korea mates an even longer-range ICBM with a nuclear warhead, putting all of the United States at risk.

  • US nuclear inspection results now concealed
    US nuclear inspection results now concealed

    The Pentagon has thrown a cloak of secrecy over assessments of the safety and security of its nuclear weapons operations, a part of the military with a history of periodic inspection failures and lapses in morale.