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Air Force Gears Up for Hypersonic Missile Test

The Air Force later this month is set to test what could be a ground-breaking flight of a hypersonic missile. The X-51 WaveRider took its maiden flight last year, demonstrating the longest-ever flight of a supersonic combustion ramjet engine, also known as a scramjet. But the next test flight is expected to fly faster and...

5 Ways to Kill Osama Bin Laden in 2 Hours or Less

(April 23) -- A concerted push to downsize the nation's nuclear arsenal is making long-range conventional strike weapons a hot topic. These Prompt Global Strike weapons are "designed to carry out tasks like picking off Osama bin Laden in a cave, if the right one could be found; taking out a North Korean missile while it...

Boeing Proposes Missile With Global Reach

(March 18) -- For nearly a decade, the Pentagon has grappled with finding a way to field a weapon with the speed and range of an intercontinental ballistic missile, but without the political ramifications of launching a nuke. Now Boeing says it has the answer: a revived 1980s-era hypersonic missile that could strike...

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06/29/11 Prompt Global Strike and Executive Power Source: Lawyers, Guns and Money In the future, however, presidents may resort to airpower in order to avoid congressional limitations on their executive power.
02/01/11 Opinion - START: One Small Step for Arms Control, One... Source: United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) A November White House Fact Sheet, entitled, 'An Enduring Commitment to the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent,' announced the Administration's plans "to invest more than $85 billion over the next decade to modernize the U.S. nuclear weapons complex that supports our deterrent.... This level of funding is unprecedented since the end of the Cold War." And this doesn't include an additional $100 Billion by 2020 to modernize the missiles and delivery systems that carry U.S. nuclear warheads.
12/13/10 U.S. plan calls for more investment in Prompt Global... Source: People's Daily The U.S. State Department on Monday published a fact sheet that says the government is evaluating directing more resources toward developing conventional prompt global strike capabilities, which is aimed at precisely striking time-sensitive, high value targets.
12/13/10 Fact Sheets: Investments in Conventional Prompt Global... Source: U.S. Department of State The New START Treaty does not contain any constraints on current or planned U.S. conventional prompt global strike capability.

Background on prompt global strike

Prompt Global Strike (PGS) is a United States military effort to develop a system that can deliver a precision conventional weapon strike anywhere in the world within one hour, in a similar manner to a nuclear ICBM.

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