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.”
Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess will be nominated by President Donald Trump as the next Chief of Space Operations, the service’s top uniformed leader, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.