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Author Archives: Douglas Birch

Posted inNational Security

A world awash in a nuclear explosive?

by Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith March 10, 2014January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Nuclear Waste: Energy Department proposes to kill multi-billion dollar nuclear fuel plant

by Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith March 4, 2014January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Nuclear Waste: Auditors find continuing mismanagement at nuclear fuel plant

by Douglas Birch February 21, 2014January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste: Cost of South Carolina fuel plant goes up by billions of dollars — again

by R. Jeffrey Smith and Douglas Birch February 14, 2014January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Cold, damp, underground cheating

Avatar photo by R. Jeffrey Smith, Mattie Quinn and Douglas Birch January 16, 2014January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Global progress seen in securing nuclear materials

by Douglas Birch January 9, 2014January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

A new use for nuclear weapons: hunting rogue asteroids

by Douglas Birch October 16, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Defense Department poorly managed design, construction of F-35 fighter, auditor says

by Douglas Birch October 1, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, War in Afghanistan and Iraq

Audit: U.S. lacks anti-corruption plan for Afghan aid

by Douglas Birch September 12, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Obama says ex-NSA contractor not a “patriot”

by Douglas Birch August 9, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

A fast, agile Navy ship is prone to embarrassing glitches

by Douglas Birch July 26, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

New protections coming for disgruntled intelligence workers

by Douglas Birch July 2, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste: Washington has ignored a cheaper way to dispose of its plutonium — until now

by Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith June 27, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

Nuclear Waste: Extremism in defense of federally-paid jobs is no vice in South Carolina

by Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith June 26, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Waste: A $1 billion Energy Department project overshoots its budget by 600 percent

by Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith June 25, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

Nuclear Waste: How a huge U.S. nonproliferation program became a major proliferation concern

by Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith June 24, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

Practice attack on Moscow was anything but routine

by Douglas Birch May 24, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

Washington fury over military sexual assaults hits the Pentagon

Avatar photo by Richard H.P. Sia and Douglas Birch May 8, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms, War in Afghanistan and Iraq

Pentagon spends billions on duplicative camouflage outfits, GAO says

by Douglas Birch April 12, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

Obama proposes shifting funds from nuclear nonproliferation to nuclear weapons

by R. Jeffrey Smith and Douglas Birch April 9, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

The high cost of rattling North Korea’s cage

by Douglas Birch March 29, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

DOE inspector general recommends consolidating national labs

by Douglas Birch March 27, 2013January 7, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Pentagon criticizes F-35 contractors but hands over the dough

by Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith March 1, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Defense officials call Air Force F-22 probe sloppy and inadequate

by Douglas Birch February 11, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security, Up in Arms

Secret US detention program had many foreign collaborators

by Douglas Birch February 5, 2013January 7, 2022
Posted inNational Security

More waste found in Afghanistan as US heads for the exit

by Douglas Birch January 31, 2013January 28, 2022
Posted inNational Security

A close call for the world’s most advanced warplane?

by Douglas Birch January 24, 2013January 28, 2022

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