Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
June 2016 - United States Special Weapons News
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- AF moving forward with restructure of missileer career field AFNS 28 Jun 2016 -- The commander of Air Force Global Strike Command directed a review of the nuclear and missile operations career field earlier this year, with the goal of creating a self-sustaining career field.
- Global nuclear weapons: downsizing but modernizing SIPRI 13 Jun 2016 -- The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) today launches its annual nuclear forces data, which highlights the current trends and developments in world nuclear arsenals. The data shows that while the overall number of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline, none of the nuclear weapon-possessing states are prepared to give up their nuclear arsenals for the foreseeable future.
- Report: U.S., Russia Slowly Reducing Nuclear Arsenals RFE/RL 13 Jun 2016 -- A Sweden-based nonproliferation think tank says the world's biggest nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, are slowly reducing their nuclear arsenals but are modernizing their capacities.
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