Secure Freedom Minute
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 04, 2012
Discarding The Scientific Method?
Wednesday Apr 04, 2012
Wednesday Apr 04, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Throughout history, sound science has been rooted in realistic experimentation. Last week, the National Academy of Science turned the scientific method on its head with a study that says we can permanently dispense with realistic tests of the very old nuclear weapons that ultimately guarantee our national security.
This is policy masquerading as science. The authors believe in complete nuclear disarmament and see an irreversible end to nuclear testing as a way to hasten that goal.
You don’t need to be a highfalutin scientist though to understand that we must have a nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future, that realistic tests are necessary to ensure its viability and that we should not become party to a treaty that would preclude the sort of rigorous testing relied upon by good science – and competent scientists.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Monday Mar 26, 2012
Obama's Unilateral Disarmament
Monday Mar 26, 2012
Monday Mar 26, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Today in South Korea, President Obama enthused again about his vision of a world without nuclear weapons. He declared that, since he was convinced we had more of them than we need, he is going to reduce our arsenal – according to some accounts to one the size of Pakistan’s.
Mr. Obama suggested that he would get the Russians to do the same. But, if not, his subordinates are signaling that he is prepared to disarm us unilaterally.
Ironically, Mr. Obama also commended his South Korean hosts for developing nuclear power, but not nuclear weapons. Evidently, he has no clue that’s because they have relied on our nuclear umbrella. If we close it, we better expect that such allies will get their own – leading to a world with more nuclear powers, not none.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Friday Mar 23, 2012
Loose Nukes
Friday Mar 23, 2012
Friday Mar 23, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Next week, President Obama and roughly fifty of his counterparts from around the world are to meet in Seoul, South Korea to talk about a very serious problem: loose nukes.
There’s a lot of material from which nuclear weapons or simpler “dirty bombs” could be fashioned and not all of it is rigorously controlled. What’s more, terrorist groups could get their hands on an actual weapon from, say the former Soviet Union’s still- inadequately secured stockpile.
Unfortunately, Mr. Obama and the so-called “Global Zero” movement seem to think that the way to address these threats is to denuclearize the United States. That won’t prevent a single unsecure nuke from getting loose. It will just mean that we will greatly increase the incentives to others to get their hands on the Bomb.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Friday Mar 09, 2012
Nuclear Accountability
Friday Mar 09, 2012
Friday Mar 09, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
In 2010, President Obama signed a deal with the Russians making deep cuts in U.S. nuclear forces.
Senators who had to approve this deal, known as the New START Treaty, were skeptical about its advisability – worrying that, its one-sided and unverifiable terms would not require the Russians to eliminate any of their weapons, only us.
The Senate’s approval ultimately depended on Mr. Obama promising to upgrade what would remain of America’s deterrent forces. Now, he is walking away from that pledge. Worse yet, he has ordered the Pentagon to prepare plans for a unilateral eighty percent reduction in our obsolescing and much-diminished nuclear arsenal.
Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio wants to hold President Obama accountable for disarming us in an increasingly dangerous world. A presidential campaign is the perfect time to do it.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Thursday Feb 23, 2012
Blind Ideology
Thursday Feb 23, 2012
Thursday Feb 23, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Last week, we learned that President Obama is actively considering reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal to as few as 300 weapons.
This week, Vladimir Putin, the rabidly anti-American autocrat who runs Russia, announced that he plans to modernize his country’s nuclear arsenal with 400 new intercontinental-range ballistic missiles.
Unfortunately, the Russians are not the only ones ignoring Mr. Obama’s bid to rid the world of nuclear arms. China, Pakistan, North Korea and Iran are among those hostile to us who are also building up their arsenals.
Under these circumstances, it is downright reckless to be pursuing what amounts to unilateral U.S. disarmament. Thirty-four Members of Congress have warned Mr. Obama that such decisions must be made on the basis not of “blind ideology,” but what will deter attack against this country. Amen.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.
Monday Feb 20, 2012
Nuclear Inspectors Back In Iran
Monday Feb 20, 2012
Monday Feb 20, 2012
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.
Nuclear inspectors are back in Iran. As Yogi Berra famously said, it feels like “déjà vu all over again.”
That’s because this the umpteenth time international monitors have tried to get the Iranians to admit the purpose of their program is to get nuclear weapons, not nuclear power.
It won’t happen this time, either. At best, the inspectors will see only what the mullahs intend – which will be nothing instructive.
More likely, the representatives of the so-called “international community” will be humiliated again, and Tehran will be that much closer to getting the Bomb.
At this point, more talk and useless inspections merely increase the threat posed to Israel and to us. The only hope for preventing calamity is military action. Given the stakes, it better be ours, not just Israel’s.
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.