DefenceTalkDefenceTalkDeveloping and deploying a sea-launched nuclear cruise missile is essential to deter Russia, U.S. officials have said. A recent State Department paper says the new weapon would help fill a gap identified in the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review. The United States retired its last nuclear sea-launched cruise missile in 2010 — one of only two […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nuke-sea-launched-cruise-missile-would-bolster-deterrence-officials-say-76136/

U.S. senators are concerned Russia and China may outpace Washington in developing hypersonic weapons. In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday with top defense officials, lawmakers expressed concern about the weapons that fly at five times the speed of sound, or Mach 5. Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut called the hypersonic weapons “a […]

DefenceTalkWith North Korea testing more missiles than ever before, Army leaders say the U.S. must be prepared to deter the rogue nation and ready to launch a counterattack should events escalate. “If you look at the Korean Peninsula, we see a rapidly developing capability being pursued by Kim Jong-un as the current leader of North […]https://www.defencetalk.com/north-korea-missile-tests-have-us-army-leaders-focused-on-deterrence-response-69066/

DefenceTalkMinuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that make up one part of the American nuclear deterrent remain highly relevant to security. The ICBM force provides many benefits that other strategic systems do not: they shorten the time needed to execute the president’s response to a nuclear attack, increase the total number of targets an adversary […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-icbms-necessary-to-secure-the-american-strategic-deterrent-66813/

DefenceTalkNATO Defence Ministers took steps to strengthen the Alliance defence and deterrence posture on Wednesday (10 February 2016). “NATO Defence Ministers agreed on an enhanced forward presence in the eastern part of our Alliance,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. The enhanced forward presence will be “multinational, to make clear that an attack against one Ally […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-boosts-its-defense-and-deterrence-posture-66699/

DefenceTalkFifty-four years ago this week, USS George Washington (SSBN-598) made history when it successfully launched two Polaris A1 missiles off Cape Canaveral, bringing to fruition a remarkable research and development effort composed of Navy and industry partners that had begun only four years earlier. Later that year, on November 15, USS George Washington began the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/the-continuing-role-of-strategic-deterrence-and-how-the-us-navy-meets-the-demands-60227/

DefenceTalkOn October 1, the Capitol Hill weekly Roll Call ran a ridiculous commentary by an anti-nuclear activist arguing that the Navy was seeking a budgetary “bailout” at the expense of its sister services to buy more ballistic-missile submarines than it needs. The boats would replace the current Ohio class of subs, which provide the most […]https://www.defencetalk.com/why-fielding-fewer-than-twelve-ballistic-missile-subs-could-be-disastrous-for-america-49282/

DefenceTalkSpace is a current and future battleground without terrain, where invisible enemies conceivably could mount undetectable attacks to devastating effect if the right deterrent and defensive plans aren’t pursued now, the assistant defense secretary for global strategic affairs told a think tank audience here Sept. 17. Madelyn R. Creedon spoke to a Stimson Center gathering […]https://www.defencetalk.com/official-describes-evolution-of-space-deterrence-49140/

DefenceTalkRussia will continue to increase its potential in air-space forces and other parts of its nuclear deterrence strategy, Chief of Staff said Tuesday. “(Russia) will beef up its air-space defense capabilities through modernization of its informational and first-strike parts,” Valery Gerasimov told reporters. He added that such modernization would guarantee early warning about launch of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-beef-up-strategic-deterrence-potential-48477/