Peter Brookes
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Is Biden White House Ignoring Iranian Nukes?
The Biden administration seems blissfully unconcerned about Iran's nuclear capability and growing threat to America's national security. → Read More
The Russians Aren’t Complying With the New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty—Now What?
The State Department informed Congress this week in its New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, Implementation Report that it can’t certify that Russia is in compliance with the bilateral nuclear arms control agreement. According to the report, Russia has been preventing required inspections of its nuclear arsenal and has failed to convene a session of the Bilateral Consultative… → Read More
Times Square Attack Reminds Us That Terrorism Still Looms
While we’d all like to think that the threat of Islamist terrorism is but just a bad memory, the machete attack on police officers in New York City’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve is a stark reminder that the possibility still looms. → Read More
The Biden Administration’s Iran Plan Won’t Work: Time for Plan B
The Biden Administration’s risky efforts to revive the deeply flawed 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have been derailed by unacceptable Iranian demands for guarantees and sanctions relief that were not part of the original deal. → Read More
Iranian Arms Sales to Moscow Benefit Tehran, Too
Press reports suggest that Iran—in addition to already providing armed drones to Russia—is in the process of transferring short-range ballistic missiles, such as its Fateh and Zolfaghar systems, to support Moscow’s → Read More
Russia’s Dirty Bomb Claim Is a Dirty Lie
In the latest in a series of outlandish claims and nefarious threats involving weapons of mass destruction during its war on Ukraine, → Read More
The U.S. Must Take Action on China’s National Security–Related Life Sciences Programs
While the U.S. intelligence community toils to identify the exact origins of the SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) virus in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), there are additional reasons to be concerned about Beijing’s work in the life sciences, especially biotechnology. Indeed, the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense (DOD) have publicly noted their unease with the PRC’s dual-use research… → Read More
China’s Secretive Work in Biotechnology
While U.S. intelligence toils to identify the exact origins of the SARS-COV2 (COVID-19) virus in China, there are other good reasons to be concerned about Chinese work in biotechnology that could be used against us and our allies in a crisis or conflict. → Read More
Iranian Drones Head to Russia for Use Against Ukraine
Biden administration national security adviser Jake Sullivan disclosed on Monday that Iran would soon be providing military drones to Russia, supporting Moscow’s → Read More
Time for the Biden Administration to Get Tough on Iran
The deadlocked negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program resumed in Qatar on June 28, after European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell visited Tehran to coax Iran back to the negotiating table. Resuming the nuclear talks makes sense only if the United States and its allies step up pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program. Otherwise, Tehran is sure to continue its delaying… → Read More
Russia’s Small Nukes are a Big Problem for European Security
With Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, now is a good time to take note of a little-spoken-of, but glaring, imbalance between America’s and Russia’s nuclear arsenals—and how it could affect stability in Europe and the interests of the United States and those of its European allies and partners. If asked, many Americans and Europeans probably believe that the United States and Russia are pretty… → Read More
Iran Armed With Nuclear Weapons: Are We Ready?
The Biden administration’s negotiations with the Iranian regime about its increasingly threatening nuclear program are on the verge of collapse. → Read More
Where’s Biden on Growing Nuclear Threats?
As Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine slogs on, the world keeps spinning, including unwelcome nuclear saber-rattling from a litany of U.S. foes that has reached a deeply unsettling din worth noting. Understandably, the conflict in Ukraine is drawing a significant amount of foreign policy attention these days. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. → Read More
Where’s Biden on Growing Nuclear Threats?
The brandishing of bombs by North Korea, Iran, and Russia is more worrisome as nuclear and missile threats skyrocket since Biden took office. → Read More
How Russia Might Deploy Nukes in Ukraine War
With Russian forces struggling mightily to subjugate Ukraine in the face of incredible resistance from both the Ukrainian army and ordinary citizens, observers are concerned about the Kremlin escalating the war with the use of nuclear weapons. At this point, it’s arguably “low risk,” but it’s not “no risk.” → Read More
How Russia Might Deploy Nukes in Ukraine War
Moscow certainly could decide to move its war on Ukraine from conventional to nuclear at any time. → Read More
False Flag Isn’t Russia’s Only Chemical Weapons Scenario
It’s very possible that Russia might use chemical weapons in a false flag operation in Ukraine, based on information the Biden administration has shared with the public on that frightening scenario. → Read More
False Flag Isn’t Russia’s Only Chemical Weapons Scenario
Russia's Vladimir Putin would never admit responsibility for using chemical weapons in Ukraine, which would violate international law. → Read More
Russia’s Claim of Chemical, Bio Labs in Ukraine Is a Ruse
In the latest in a series of specious and outlandish justifications for its illegal, immoral, and brutal invasion of sovereign Ukraine, Russia is claiming that Washington and Kyiv are working together to develop chemical and biological weapons. Pure Putin propaganda. Indeed, according to the U.S. State Department this week: → Read More
Russia’s Claim of Chemical, Bio Labs in Ukraine Is a Ruse
Russia claims that the U.S. and Kyiv are working to develop chemical and biological weapons. It's not unlikely that a false flag will follow. → Read More