strategic nuclear modernization

What Trump should tell Putin in Helsinki

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by J Michael Waller / Fox News / July 15, 2018 President Trump can have a successful summit Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland and outwit his critics if he takes a tough-love approach to his seeming bromance with the Russian leader. Putin’s hold on power is weaker than it seems. He takes … Read more

Subsidizing Russia’s nuclear scientists

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by J Michael Waller, Insight, April 5-12, 1999. Nearly six years ago, Congress and the Clinton administration launched a visionary scheme to help the scientists and engineers designing the Soviet weapons of mass destruction to put their skills to civilian use. The goal was to prevent them from working for rogue regimes such as Iran, Iraq … Read more

From butter to missiles (how US aid funds Russian nuclear modernization)

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by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, December 15, 1998. Russia’s new government leaders have yet to devise a coherent recovery plan as they beg for Western economic and food aid. But instead, they have been spending their time and money preparing for — of all things — nuclear war against the United States and its allies. … Read more

No nukes pointed this way? Think again.

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by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, July 6, 1998 After years of assuring the public that no nuclear missiles are aimed at the United States, President Clinton came to China with a proposal to Beijing — a proposal admitting that what he told the American people was untrue. The president asked China’s communist leaders to de-target … Read more

IMF and the Russian missiles

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by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, January 23, 1998 American national security depends on Congress providing more money for the International Monetary Fund. That’s what Defense Secretary William Cohen is telling fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill, in a last-ditch administration effort to bail out troubled economies in Asia and elsewhere. For those unmoved by economic arguments, … Read more

Out with the old nukes, in with the new

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by J Michael Waller, Washington Times, June 10, 1996 Abstract: US policy toward Russia is to fund the dismantlement of Moscow’s antiquated nuclear arsenal, and facilitate its replacement with a next-generation, modernized strategic weapons force. Download PDF: Out-w-Old-Nukes-WT-1996.06.10