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Newer News: July 2019

June 2019

• The Pentagon Revealed Its Nuclear War Strategy and It's Terrifying by Matthew Gault, VICE, June 21. "The Pentagon published the 'Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations' on the Joint Chiefs of Staff's website last week, then pulled the document. The 60 page paper is a look at how the Pentagon views nuclear weapons, the circumstances under which it might use them, and how it might fight after a nuclear detonation."
• Oops: The Pentagon Just Revealed Its Nuclear Doctrine by David Axe, The National Interest, June 20. "The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in mid-June 2019 briefly published the Pentagon's official doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons. The joint chiefs quickly pulled the document -- Joint Publication 3-72, Nuclear Operations -- from the public website."
• Nuclear weapons: experts alarmed by new Pentagon 'war-fighting' doctrine by Julian Borger, The Guardian, June 19. "US joint chiefs of staff posted then removed paper that suggests nuclear weapons could 'create conditions for decisive results'."
• Trump Ordered Dramatic Cuts To Expert Science Panels by Dan Vergano, Buzzfeed, June 15. "This kind of wholesale elimination of advisory panels is bad government," said one expert.
• With classified filing, feds eye national security case against Mar-a-Lago intruder by Jay Weaver and Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, June 12. "Federal prosecutors disclosed this week they are developing a potential national security case against Yujing Zhang, the 33-year-old Chinese woman charged with unlawfully entering Mar-a-Lago with a stash of electronic equipment."
• U.S. Reverses Nuclear Stockpile Transparency , Arms Control Today, June. "The Trump administration refused in April to release information describing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the number of weapons dismantled as of the end of fiscal year 2018. The decision reversed a practice established by the Obama administration in 2010."

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