Four senior American statesmen are urging the US to seek an end to nuclear weapons. Penning a commentary in the Jan. 4 Wall Street Journal, George Shultz (former Secretary of State), William Perry (former Defense Secretary), Henry Kissinger (former Secretary of State), and Sam Nunn (former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee), wrote that although nuclear weapons were necessary during the Cold War, today reliance on them for deterrence is “becoming increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.”
With Congress considering another continuing resolution to cover the rest of fiscal 2025, the Space Force’s No. 2 officer asked lawmakers to give the service “flexibility” to deal with budget uncertainty.