National Security

U.S. Missile Defense System To Undergo More Tests

7:31am April 20, 2017

by Philip Ewing

The U.S. is planning tests of its missile defense system as the world deals with a slow-motion crisis over North Korea's aspirations to put a nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile.

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Trump Administration Sends Mixed Signals About Iran Nuclear Deal

5:12pm April 19, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Iran expert Raymond Tanter, who served on the National Security Council under President Reagan and was involved in arms control talks from 1983 to 1984, about the Trump administration's re-examination of the Iran nuclear deal.

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, pictured in Moscow last week, says Iran has been abiding by a 2015 nuclear agreement. But he told Congress in a letter that the Trump administration was reviewing the lifting of U.S. sanctions against Iran to determi

Iran Sticks To Nuclear Deal, But U.S. Says It Will Review Sanctions

2:28pm April 19, 2017

by Greg Myre

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tells Congress that the Trump administration will take another look at sanctions to see if lifting them was in line with U.S. national security interests.

An official photograph dated April 15 and posted by the Navy shows the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in an Indonesian strait thousands of miles south of North Korea.

That 'Armada' Heading To North Korea? Actually, It Sailed South

5:45pm April 18, 2017

by Philip Ewing

The narrative last week was that the U.S. and its allies in the western Pacific were gearing up to confront North Korea. But a strike group that was reportedly on its way isn't anywhere near there.

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Intelligence Leaks Complicate Efforts To Renew Key Surveillance Program

5:42pm April 17, 2017

by David Welna

Republican officials are outraged by leaks indicating U.S. intelligence agencies spied on Trump associates. But their anger is also tainting a top priority for national security hardliners: the reauthorization of an expiring warrantless surveillance program known as Section 702. It currently sweeps up countless Americans, and lawmakers are demanding at least an estimate of how many before the statute is extended.

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Helmeted Chadian and other African police commandos, armed with dummy rifles hunt down terrorist suspects who've taken hostages in the building, during a US military led Flintlock 2017 law enforcement exercise in Ndjamena Chad, 15 March 2017.

Amid Aid Uncertainty, U.S. Counterterrorism Cooperation Continues In Africa

4:39pm April 17, 2017

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Forces from 27 countries took part last month in U.S.-led counterterrorism exercises to fight extremist violence by Boko Haram, the flow of foreign fighters and trafficking in the Lake Chad region.

An unidentified missile is displayed during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang, the nation's capital, on Saturday.

North Korea Missile Launch Fails A Day After Military Parade

11:11pm April 15, 2017

by Emma Bowman

The unidentified missile "blew up almost immediately" on Sunday morning, near the nation's east coast, according to the U.S. military.

North Koreans Put New Advanced Missiles On Parade In Pyongyang

6:16pm April 15, 2017

by Michel Martin

Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies discusses North Korea and U.S. relations.

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Leaks Between Trump Team And Russia Continue To Come Out

6:16pm April 15, 2017

The latest twists and turns after an eventful week in U.S.-Russia relations including new developments concerning former Trump advisers Carter Page and Paul Manafort.

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After This Week, Is Trump's Message Still America First?

6:16pm April 15, 2017

Journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, conservative political commentator Lenny McAllister, and Arsalan Iftikhar, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com talk about the week's many developments in foreign policy.

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