B
oth Americans and Russians, according to recent polls in both countries, would like to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide. The WorldPublicOpinion.org and Center for International And Security Studies (University of Maryland) poll found that a majority of Americans (73 percent) and Russians (63 percent) favor elimination of nuclear weapons, if there is an advanced international system of verification. Roughly a similar percentage in both countries favor taking nukes off alert right now.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
