Following the bombastic outpourings of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confirmed Monday that US concerns about the Iranian nuclear program now are shared across the globe. (DR, 9/20/05) Rice said that the concerns about Iran “have got to be answered.” In her words: “ Iran must be prevented from gaining the technology and the technological know-how that would potentially lead to a nuclear weapon.”
The Senate Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces heard testimony from the Defense Department’s top missile defense leaders and demanded to know why the Missile Defense Agency's proposed $9.6 billion fiscal 2023 budget will not yield more reliable defense against hypersonic weapons already being fielded by adversaries, including Russia on…