Senate Democrats don’t really expect a ratification vote for the New START arms control agreement in the lame-duck session, but are continuing to campaign for ratification for partisan political reasons, said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Thursday. “The people [voters] have spoken, and now trying to cram through an old agenda in a lame-duck session is the wrong thing to do,” he said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. “The best way to end proliferation,” he argued “is for people to know” that no matter how many ballistic missiles a potential enemy may have, “we can shoot them down” by developing a “missile defense system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete.” Pursuing New START without a commitment to a missile defense capable of negating “multiple missiles” tacitly accepts the “premise of mutually assured destruction,” something American citizens would reject, asserted DeMint. “If we’re committed to developing a missile defense umbrella . . . and rendering nuclear weapons obsolete, I believe that we could do it,” he said. He added, “That should be our goal in a very dangerous world.”
Navy CCA Program’s Shape Coming into Focus
Oct. 17, 2025
In announcing its Navy Collaborative Combat Aircraft contract, General Atomics has provided some clues as to where the service is heading with its version of an armed, autonomous fighter escort. It will likely be quite different from the Air Force version.
