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	<title>The Scoop Deck &#187; nuclear weapons</title>
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		<title>Ensign Seeks Release from Subs on Religious Grounds</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/05/ensign-seeks-release-from-subs-on-religious-grounds/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/11/05/ensign-seeks-release-from-subs-on-religious-grounds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Fellman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Naval Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Ohio-class ballistic submarine on strategic patrol in the Atlantic Ocean. // U.S. Navy Would you push the button and launch a nuclear missile, if ordered to? By the time Ensign Michael Izbicki was asked this question in a routine psychological screening at nuclear power school, he had had a religious awakening. He had read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The brass argues: Who gets to nuke the North?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/the-brass-argues-who-gets-to-nuke-the-north/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/10/11/the-brass-argues-who-gets-to-nuke-the-north/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning&#8217;s AP report about the U.S. military&#8217;s newly declassified nuclear weapons plans for North Korea is an absolute must read. Did you know the infamous Gen. Douglas MacArthur had a plan to hit the North with 30 to 50 nuclear weapons? That the U.S. has seriously considered nuking the North at least six times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty in New Zealand? Strewth! Well, maybe.</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/liberty-in-new-zealand/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/04/14/liberty-in-new-zealand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life at Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re serving out in the Pacific and you&#8217;ve always wanted to see Middle Earth New Zealand on a port visit, your chances could be improving &#8212; maybe. U.S. warships have been banned from The Land In The Long White Cloud since 1986, when lawmakers there decided no nuclear-powered ships, or ships carrying nuclear weapons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Trident Training (pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training-pt-2/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training-pt-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. 1015 We are treated to a quick review of A/C repair – a very important facet of sub life. Not only for reasons of comfort, but for the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Trident Training</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-trident-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. Sailors assigned to the guided-missile submarine Florida practice skills controlling the boat in the Ships Control Team Trainer at the Trident Training Facility in Kings Bay, Ga. (photo by MTCS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling with CNO &#8212; Kings Bay</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-kings-bay/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/24/traveling-with-cno-kings-bay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scoop Deck blogger Lance M. Bacon took a day trip with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead this week. This is the play-by-play report. 0900 Scoop Deck is aboard Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., where one-half of the nation&#8217;s guided-missile and ballistic-missile submarines are based. We have Lt. j.g. David McCabe at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuke deal implications for the Navy</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/15/nuke-deal-implications-for-the-navy/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/15/nuke-deal-implications-for-the-navy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ballistic missile defense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our big-time colleagues at Defense News have a story that says the Kremlin and the White House could be getting close to a new strategic arms reduction deal, and that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could begin talks with her Russian counterparts as early as this week.  Here&#8217;s an interesting detail: The New York Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan permitted U.S. Navy nukes. And how!</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/10/japan-permitted-u-s-navy-nukes-and-how/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/03/10/japan-permitted-u-s-navy-nukes-and-how/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a report for the &#8220;water = wet&#8221; and &#8220;sun likely to rise tomorrow&#8221; file &#8212; the Japanese government this week publicly confirmed for the first time that it permitted visits by U.S. warships carrying nuclear weapons back in the bad old days, despite the official Japanese prohibition on nuclear arms. The admission is part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bartlett: EMP, carrier-killers and unmanned ships</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/bartlett-emp-carrier-killers-and-unmanned-ships/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/24/bartlett-emp-carrier-killers-and-unmanned-ships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., is the top guy in Congress when it comes to electromagnetic pulse attacks. At every hearing where military decision-makers appear, he asks: Aren&#8217;t you concerned about EMPs? What are you doing about EMPs? Suppose China hits us with an EMP? Bartlett didn&#8217;t disappoint when Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, Chief of Naval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: No more nuke Tomahawks after all</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/22/report-no-more-nuke-tomahawks-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/02/22/report-no-more-nuke-tomahawks-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=3858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s Kyodo News Service is reporting that the U.S. has &#8220;informally&#8221; notified the government of Japan that it&#8217;s going to retire the nuclear-capable variant of the Tomahawk cruise missile, &#8220;in line with President Barack Obama&#8217;s policy to pursue a world free of nuclear weapons, Japanese government sources said Monday.&#8221; As we discussed back in December, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What might have been: CVB(N)s, BBBs and T-ABs?</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/04/what-might-have-been-cvbns-bbbs-t-ab/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2010/01/04/what-might-have-been-cvbns-bbbs-t-ab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago we observed the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of the ballistic missile sub George Washington, the Navy&#8217;s first boomer and the culmination of its bid to grasp its share of the U.S. strategic deterrence mission. Did you know, however, that submarines were originally only one slice of a Navy plan to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we forget &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/lest-we-forget/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/12/31/lest-we-forget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance Bacon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Joel &#8220;Bubblehead&#8221; Kennedy, who reminds us of the 50th anniversary of the commissioning of USS George Washington (SSBN 598), the first ballistic missile submarine. What must it have been like to be there July 20 1960, when the skipper sent a burner 1,100 miles downrange, then sent President Eisenhower the message: POLARIS &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He flew low over Cuba, then visited 39 years later</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/he-flew-low-over-cuba-then-visited-39-years-later/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/11/13/he-flew-low-over-cuba-then-visited-39-years-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of us here at Scoop Deck prefer to take our news from paper. The deliberate design of words and images on pages you can turn allows a reader to find news or information he or she might have otherwise missed by pointing and clicking. Take obituaries. They often make good reads not because someone is dead, but because the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undersea update</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/23/undersea-update/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/10/23/undersea-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=2587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the Naval Submarine League&#8217;s annual symposium next week here near Washington, D.C., the good news arrives that the ballistic missile submarine West Virginia successfully launched two unarmed D-5 Trident II ballistic missiles on Oct 23., likely off the Navy&#8217;s missile test facility in Port Canaveral, Fla.  Maybe more likely to come up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipino rep: U.S. Navy keep out</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/19/filipino-rep-u-s-navy-keep-out/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/08/19/filipino-rep-u-s-navy-keep-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Ewing</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carriers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/?p=1841</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not everybody loves visits from the carrier George Washington as much as the Australians. When the ship pulled into Manila Bay last week, a representative in the Philippine Congress called in no uncertain terms for GW to turn right around and leave. U.S. aircraft carriers, as &#8220;floating bases&#8221; for strike aircraft, are as bad as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to (re)launch</title>
		<link>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/15/failure-to-relaunch/</link>
		<comments>http://militarytimes.com/blogs/scoopdeck/2009/07/15/failure-to-relaunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Scutro</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a steady cascade of reports out of Great Britain about a lack of support for Royal Navy involvement in the next iteration of the Trident missile submarine. The argument is that with likely threats not coming from an actual country that can be punched back with a sea-launched ballistic missile, scarce dollars, if spent [...]]]></description>
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