Changes in climate patterns and their impact on the physical environment can create profound effects on populations in parts of the world and present new challenges to global security and stability. Failure to anticipate and mitigate these changes increases the threat of more failed states with the instabilities and potential for conflict inherent in such failures. This report begins with an overview of the impacts of climate change over recent ...
The need for increased attention to the Air Force nuclear enterprise was highlighted by the August 2007 unauthorized transfer from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB and the inadvertent shipment of nuclear weapon components to Taiwan in 2008. While these incidents demanded urgent corrective action, a number of earlier decisions had an important negative impact on the overall enterprise. Dealing with these impacts required and will continue to require a broader ...
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