New movement in "New Europe"...; ...amid intransigence in Istanbul; A nuclear football of a different sort; Zero-sum in South Asia

Holding the line on missile defense?; CTBT, nuclear disarmament back on the agenda; U.S. nuclear modernization: too little, too late?; ABL's blaze of glory

A failing grade in WMD defense...; ...a slipping timeline for space, nuclear priorities...; ...and a status quo approach to strategic forces; Russia plans response to Polish Patriots; Hamas, rearmed

Pentagon frets over China's space program...; ...as India eyes the stars; Kremlin seeks to bring back balance of terror; Iron Dome inches forward; Beijing flexes its missile defense muscles

A funny thing happened in the skies over Norway last month. On Dec. 10, as U.S. President Barack Obama geared up to deliver his acceptance speech before the Nobel Prize Committee in Oslo, spectators outdoors were treated to a spectacular display of spiraling light. The cause was not a UFO, as some contended, but a failed test of the Bulava, Russia's newest sea-launched intercontinental ballistic missile. The episode was a telling reminder of the shifting strategic balance between Washington and the rest of the world.

China's growing naval capabilities... and what they mean for the U.S.; Protecting Poland; Looking beyond the S-300; START is dead, long live START

U.S. missile defense: deliberately minimalist?; Chinese missile capabilities changing Pentagon's Asian calculus; More Aegist ships on the horizon; The PRC plans for conflict in space; Rethinking missile defense in Japan

Iran and the S-300 issue; U.S.-Japanese cooperation faces the financial ax; "Juniper Cobra" prepares for Mideast conflict; Slowly but surely, Obama missile defense plan gains ground

GMD, RIP; Mistiming the Iranian missile threat?; The mirage of "zero"

Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Obama administration's decision last Thursday to scrap missile-defense deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic is that it was so long in coming. Mr. Obama has defended his decision on both technical and financial grounds. The Bush administration's plans to deploy ground-based interceptors in Poland and early warning radars in the Czech Republic were targeted as part of his campaign pledge to eliminate billions of dollars in missile-defense spending. Instead, the White House now has pledged to develop a new theater and sea-based missile-defense architecture for Europe that "will provide stronger, smarter, and swifter defenses of American forces and America's allies." But what about defense of America?