Weapons

Beltway Confidential

5 takeaways from Israel’s assassination of Iran’s top nuclear weapons scientist

Tom Rogan · November 27, 2020 8:00 pm

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un looks at the news media during a photo session during a expanded bilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in Singapore.

Beltway Confidential

How Joe Biden should approach North Korea

Tom Rogan · November 25, 2020 8:45 pm

A Sabre short-range ballistic missile launches in June 2017 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, for a test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement, an advanced missile defense system. Hypersonic missiles might be able to penetrate PAC-3 and similar systems.

US successfully conducts test to intercept missile via ship for first time

Mike Brest · November 17, 2020 2:01 pm

Video shows thieves ramming U-Haul into local Georgia sporting goods store

Anthony Leonardi · November 12, 2020 6:32 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Iran's heavy water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran. A senior Iranian official said Monday, March 17, 2014, that an alleged attempt to sabotage one of Tehran's nuclear facilities, the nuclear reactor at Arak in the center of the country, involved foreign intelligence agencies who tampered with imported pumps. Tehran has accused the Israel, the U.S. and their allies of undermining Iran's nuclear program through covert operations. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

Beltway Confidential

Biden faces Iran’s nuclear fastball

Tom Rogan · November 11, 2020 8:20 pm

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

The debate over allies: Makers or takers of US military might?

Jamie McIntyre · November 6, 2020 4:00 am

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a statement on Iraq, at President Donald Trumpâs Mar-a-Lago property, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla.

State Department greenlights $1.8B weapons sale to Taiwan

Tyler Van Dyke · October 22, 2020 1:03 am

This image made from video broadcasted by North Korea's KRT, shows a military parade with what appears to be possible new intercontinental ballistic missile at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020.

National Security

Japan says it will strengthen missile defense after North Korean military parade

Zach Halaschak · October 14, 2020 12:27 am

Beltway Confidential

How North Korea’s new missile aims for American fear

Tom Rogan · October 12, 2020 10:20 am

A North Korean flag flies above a CCTV surveillance camera attached on the entrance gate at the North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 13, 2017. Malaysia's health minister said Monday that the government will give relatives of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother two to three weeks to claim his body before deciding what to do with it.

Beltway Confidential

North Korea’s nuclear fishing lesson

Tom Rogan · September 24, 2020 4:46 pm

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a meeting with a group of Revolutionary Guards and their families, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 9, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Why Iran is unlikely to retaliate over new US sanctions

Tom Rogan · September 21, 2020 6:50 pm

National Security

Woman suspected of mailing ricin to Trump arrested trying to enter US from Canada

Anna Giaritelli · September 21, 2020 2:52 pm