Four senior American statesmen are urging the US to seek an end to nuclear weapons. Penning a commentary in the Jan. 4 Wall Street Journal, George Shultz (former Secretary of State), William Perry (former Defense Secretary), Henry Kissinger (former Secretary of State), and Sam Nunn (former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee), wrote that although nuclear weapons were necessary during the Cold War, today reliance on them for deterrence is “becoming increasingly hazardous and decreasingly effective.”
The last remaining T-1 Jayhawk at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, took its final flight to the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on July 15. The 99th Flying Training Squadron will train pilots using T-6 and simulator until it gets T-7 Red Hawk in fiscal 2026.