He Throws the Signs, I Hook Up the Beats with Clout
Travis | Jan 20, 2010 |
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Damn trees always in the way of my forest!
There is a general consensus that the United States cannot maintain a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear deterrent without investing in the personnel who perform the research, testing, and engineering on the nuclear stockpile. As The Four Horsemen of the Anti-Apocalypse wrote in their WSJ op-ed today, “The United States must continue to attract, develop and retain the outstanding scientists, engineers, designers and technicians we will need to maintain our nuclear arsenal, whatever its size, for as long as the nation's security requires it.”
Yet the latest JASON study warned that the nuclear labs’ human capital may be in trouble, noting that the nuclear enterprise’s expertise “is threatened by lack of program stability, perceived lack of mission importance, and degradation of the work environment.”
Early evidence suggests...
The Four Horsemen Return
Kingston Reif | Jan 20, 2010 | 1 
The Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen (a.k.a. George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn) are back with another Wall Street Journal op-ed on the importance of eliminating the “threat to the world” posed by nuclear weapons. The bipartisan group of four senior statesmen notes that “as we work to reduce nuclear weaponry and to realize the vision of a world without nuclear weapons, we recognize the necessity to maintain the safety, security and reliability of our own weapons.”
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