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.”
In the small world of Air Force weather specialists, combat weather specialists are a niche unto themselves, deploying with Army ground units to provide forecasts and, if need be, fight alongside those Soldiers. For Staff Sgt. Francisco Estrada, the hardest part of the job isn’t the possibility of ground combat,…


