Rebeccah Heinrichs is a national security analyst and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in nuclear deterrence and missile defense policy. She contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2011 and 2016, focusing on missile defense strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, and critiques of the Obama administration's defense policies toward Russia and Iran.
On the heels of President Obama's regrettable speech at Hiroshima, White House official Ben Rhodes, of "echo chamber" infamy, doubled down on the president's commitment to the nuclear disarmament agenda Obama laid out in Prague early in his first term. Specifically, Rhodes revealed that the Obama…
Just before the Republican presidential candidates went on stage Tuesday night for the fourth debate, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will deploy "strike systems capable of penetrating any missile defenses." He was specifically talking about the U.S. defensive systems planned for Europe that…
Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), used his speech this month at the 2015 Review Conference on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to lecture the West on its behavior and “remind” states of the importance of eliminating nuclear weapons. Speaking…
When Barack Obama campaigned for president in 2008, he promised to “cut investments in unproven missile defense systems.” The word “unproven,” folks worried, could be used against every defense system that hasn’t intercepted a missile in combat. And, indeed, Obama did cut missile defense programs.
Last week, a senior Russian official met two Republican senators and came away warning that the GOP would drive Washington’s relations with Moscow into the ground if they came back to power.
Last week, a senior Russian official met two Republican senators and came away warning that the GOP would drive Washington's relations with Moscow into the ground if they came back to power.