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This June 4, 1996, photo provided by William Perry, shows, from left, Russian defense minister Pavel Grachev, Ukrainian Defense Minister Valery Schmarov, and U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry planting sunflowers at the site which formerly housed a missile silo at a military base near Pervomaysk, some 155 miles south of Kyiv, Ukraine. (Department of Defense via AP)

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Where Ukraine's sunflowers once sprouted, fears now grow
By ROBERT BURNS - AP National Security Writer
Fri,01/21/22-11:26PM , 195 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — On a warm spring day in Ukraine 26 years ago, three men smiled for cameras as they planted symbolic sunflower seedlings in freshly tilled earth where Soviet nuclear missiles had once stood ready.
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A convoy of Russian armored vehicles moves along a highway in Crimea, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Russia has concentrated an estimated 100,000 troops with tanks and other heavy weapons near Ukraine in what the West fears could be a prelude to an invasion. The Biden administration is unlikely to answer a further Russian invasion of Ukraine by sending U.S. combat troops. But it could pursue a range of less dramatic yet still risky options, including giving military support to a post-invasion Ukrainian resistance. (AP Photo)

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EXPLAINER: What are US military options to help Ukraine?
By ROBERT BURNS - AP National Security Writer
Wed,01/19/22-11:18PM , 138 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is not planning to answer a further Russian invasion of Ukraine by s
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. A federal judge in Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Navy from acting against 35 sailors for refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The injunction is a new challenge to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's decision to make vaccinations mandatory for all members of the military. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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Navy blocked from acting against 35 COVID vaccine refusers
By ROBERT BURNS - AP National Security Writer
Tue,01/04/22-9:48AM , 125 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the Navy from acting against 35 sailors for refusing on religious grounds to comply with an order to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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FILE - This image taken with a slow shutter speed on Oct. 2, 2019, and provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Major shifts in U.S. nuclear weapons policy seem much less likely, and while President Joe Biden may insist on certain adjustments, momentum toward a historic departure from the Trump administration's policy appears to have stalled. The outlook will be clearer when the Biden administration completes its so-called nuclear posture review – an internal relook at the numbers, kinds and purposes of weapons in the nuclear arsenal, as well as the policies that govern their potential use. The results could be made public as early as January.(Staff Sgt. J.T. Armstrong/U.S. Air Force via AP)

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Angst over China, Russia lessens chance of US nuke changes
By ROBERT BURNS - AP National Security Writer
Sun,01/02/22-11:10PM , 117 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House nearly a year ago seemed to herald a historic shift toward less U.S. reliance on nuclear weapons and possibly a shrinking of their numbers.
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