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Our “No Power, No Mission” panel featured Lt. Col. Thomas Nix of Air Force Research Laboratory, Dr. Tabitha Dodson of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Michael Smith of United States Department of Defense. Panelists discussed the role of nuclear power in space missions and the challenges and opportunities surrounding it. #POCspace2024

Our “No Power, No Mission” panel featured Lt. Col. Thomas Nix of Air Force Research Laboratory, Dr. Tabitha Dodson of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Michael Smith of United States Department of Defense. Panelists discussed the role of nuclear power in space missions and the challenges and opportunities surrounding it. #POCspace2024

Our “No Power, No Mission” panel featured Lt. Col. Thomas Nix of Air Force Research Laboratory, Dr. Tabitha Dodson of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Michael Smith of United States Department of Defense. Panelists discussed the role of nuclear power in space missions and the challenges and opportunities surrounding it. #POCspace2024

Our “No Power, No Mission” panel featured Lt. Col. Thomas Nix of Air Force Research Laboratory, Dr. Tabitha Dodson of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Michael Smith of United States Department of Defense. Panelists discussed the role of nuclear power in space missions and the challenges and opportunities surrounding it. #POCspace2024

Our “No Power, No Mission” panel featured Lt. Col. Thomas Nix of Air Force Research Laboratory, Dr. Tabitha Dodson of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Michael Smith of United States Department of Defense. Panelists discussed the role of nuclear power in space missions and the challenges and opportunities surrounding it. #POCspace2024

Our “No Power, No Mission” panel featured Lt. Col. Thomas Nix of Air Force Research Laboratory, Dr. Tabitha Dodson of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Michael Smith of United States Department of Defense. Panelists discussed the role of nuclear power in space missions and the challenges and opportunities surrounding it. #POCspace2024

Perhaps an important topic given the time we are in! https://lnkd.in/g_egztc3 Defense Primer: Command and Control of Nuclear Forces (2-pg CRS PDF)

The Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary with the Military Museum have been having a series of public talks on key security issues facing Canada. On November 23 2023, I was privilege to have been able to share my thoughts on the changing Nuclear Weapons international security environment. We are seeing a massive modernization of the deterrent forces of all of the major nuclear powers. But even more troubling is the emerging warheads and delivery systems that can be thought of as being war-fighting. So moving forward in an increasingly dangerous international great power system, what does it mean? In an attempt to answer this, my talk was titled "Thinking about the Unthinkable: The Modernization of Nuclear Weapons and their Delivery Systems". https://lnkd.in/gbGb9zDW

The US Navy Leadership and Others Illustrate the Bipartisan Nature of Supporting Rebuilding our Submarine Industrial Base. The world is depending on America to get itself organized, both our public and private sectors working together, to build the nuclear submarines that counter our adversaries in the Pacific and globally. https://lnkd.in/efaNFEJe

Of the total global inventory of an estimated 12 121 warheads in January 2024, about 9585 were in military stockpiles for potential use.    Read the 2024 #SIPRIYearbook chapter on world nuclear forces to learn more ⬇️