NS&D Monitor
5/1/2015
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
President Barack Obama submitted to the Senate this week the Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, urging the Senate’s “early and favorable consideration.” Ratified by Kyrgyrzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, the Central Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (CANWFZ) is a legally binding commitment not to acquire, test, make or possess nuclear weapons. Upon entry into force, the treaty would hold the United States to not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states in CANWFZ who maintain their nonproliferation obligations. “As the Department of State’s Overview of the Protocol explains, entry into force of the Protocol for the United States would require no changes in U.S. law, policy, or practice,” Obama wrote this week in a letter to the Senate.
IN THE AIR FORCE
Adm. Cecil Haney, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, visited F.E. Warren AFB this week, where he hosted a stakeholders meeting for intercontinental ballistic missile stakeholders, according to a press release. "This is a forum that allows me to listen to our leadership," Haney said. "We can meet as one team and look at how we can sustain this very important capability for the U.S." Stakeholders meetings assess the health and direction of U.S. strategic forces, including bomber, ICBM and Ohio-class submarine forces, as well as command and control and the sensors that tie them all together.
