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THE NEWS 

ICONs Weekly

85 Pages of reading in this week’s ICons Weekly

Contributions by Consultants:

SUSAN CORNWELL:

·       8 Pages of Congressional Articles

PETER HUESSY “ICBM Ear”:

·       Weekly Update (32 Pages Attached)

·       Link to Mitchell Institute Video Seminars: https://www.mitchellaerospacepower.org/aerospace-nation

·         2021 Breakfast Series (Attached)

·         7 Jul Crane Deterrence Seminar Speakers (Attached)

ERIN NEAL “VELOCITY GOVERNMENT RELATIONS:

·       Weekly Update (9 Pages Attached)

Attached DoD & Congressional Letters:

Attached Articles & Videos:

Upcoming Events in 20201: 

• ·       May 2021 Strategic Deterrent Coalition (SDC) Groton CT Symposium  

• Due to the ongoing pandemic the symposium will be virtual.
• More information is contained in attached letter from the SDC President

• ·       July 7-8th, 2021, Crane, Indiana (DRAFT AGENDA ATTACHED)

• NAVSEA Crane, SSP and the Mitchell Institute Presents:

• ·       THE 21ST NUCLEAR TRIAD SYMPOSIUM,
• ·       NUCLEAR MODERNIZATION: THE ONLY CHOICE TO SUSTAIN NUCLEAR DETERRENCE

STRATEGIC DETERRENt COALITION:  A non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization of concerned citizens with the mission of educating and informing the public and decision makers on the importance of a valid Nuclear Triad and strategic weapons

THE ASSOCIATION OF AIR FORCE MISSILEERS: Is a tax exempt, non-profit for all who have earned the United States Air Force Missile Badge or the Missile and Space badge, as well as other with an interest in past or current USAF missile and space systems.  AAFM Mission: Preserving the Heritage of Air Force Missiles and the people involved with them; Recognizing Outstanding Missileers; Keeping Missileers Informed; Encouraging Meetings and Reunions; Providing a Single Point of Contact for Missileers

The Strategic Forces Association: A small, Washington D.C. based niche trade association focused on US Strategic Forces, Nuclear Enterprise, Missile Defense, Hypersonics, NC3, and young professional development in industry and government. SFA has served as a valuable forum for discussing actionable ideas and advancing sound national security solutions within our focus areas.

Tom   

The Strategic Deterrence Coalition (SDC) sponsored ICBM Contractors’ (ICons) Weekly News Letter is Not-for-profit, educational/informational publication and DOES NOT reflect the position(s) of any company, agency or other entity. All material presented below has not been altered and is provided under “FAIR USE” in public law. – SDC ICons Information Coordinator/Distribution Director

The next published ICons weekly will be the weekend of 5 December, immediately preceding Pearl Harbor Remembrance.

Stay well and stay safe!

THE NEWS 

ICONs Weekly

114 Pages of reading in this week’s ICons Weekly

Contributions by Consultants:

SUSAN CORNWELL:

·       7 Pages of Articles and Analysis & Budget Data

PETER HUESSY:

·       Weekly Update (29 Pages Attached)

·       Link to Mitchell Institute Video Seminars: https://www.mitchellaerospacepower.org/aerospace-nation

ERIN NEAL:

·       Weekly Update (14 Pages Attached)

Attached DoD & Congressional Letters:

Attached Articles & Videos: Provided by the dashing young “Uncle Bob Lindseth”

• ·       NPR Policy Brief DPRK (Attached)
• ·       2021 US Nuclear Weapons Capability (Attached)
• ·       Elements of China Challenge (Attached)

Upcoming Event:

The INVITE to link into the event will be sent out as we approach the 10th of December

December 10, 2020 9 am CT/10 am ET – 12 noon CT/1 pm ET

20th Annual Nuclear Triad and Deterrence Symposium

SECOND TO NONE: WORKING TOGETHER TO MODERNIZE

AMERICA'S NUCLEAR DETERRENT

Hosted by Louisiana Tech Research Institute (LTRI), Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) and the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies (in association with Air Force Global Strike Command).

STRATEGIC DETERRENt COALITION:  A non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization of concerned citizens with the mission of educating and informing the public and decision makers on the importance of a valid Nuclear Triad and strategic weapons

THE ASSOCIATION OF AIR FORCE MISSILEERS: Is a tax exempt, non-profit for all who have earned the United States Air Force Missile Badge or the Missile and Space badge, as well as other with an interest in past or current USAF missile and space systems.  AAFM Mission: Preserving the Heritage of Air Force Missiles and the people involved with them; Recognizing Outstanding Missileers; Keeping Missileers Informed; Encouraging Meetings and Reunions; Providing a Single Point of Contact for Missileers

The Strategic Forces Association: A small, Washington D.C. based niche trade association focused on US Strategic Forces, Nuclear Enterprise, Missile Defense, Hypersonics, NC3, and young professional development in industry and government. SFA has served as a valuable forum for discussing actionable ideas and advancing sound national security solutions within our focus areas.

Tom   

The Strategic Deterrence Coalition (SDC) sponsored ICBM Contractors’ (ICons) Weekly News Letter is Not-for-profit, educational/informational publication and DOES NOT reflect the position(s) of any company, agency or other entity. All material presented below has not been altered and is provided under “FAIR USE” in public law. – SDC ICons Information Coordinator/Distribution Director

Stay well and stay safe!

THE NEWS 

ICONs Weekly

58 Pages of reading in this week’s ICons Weekly

Contributions by Consultants:

SUSAN CORNWELL:

·       10 Pages of Articles and Analysis & Budget Data AND NOVEMBER ELECTION related articles

PETER HUESSY:

·       CSAF Aerospace Nation Seminar 20 Oct at 09:00 EDT…send Peter Huessy and email at PHussey@afa.org

·       Weekly Update (20 Pages Attached)

·       IGDA Directed Energy Symposium slides

·       Link to Mitchell Institute Video Seminars: https://www.mitchellaerospacepower.org/aerospace-nation

ERIN NEAL:

·       Weekly Update (14 Pages attached)

Attached DoD & Congressional Letters:

Attached Articles & Videos (Provided by “Uncle Bob Lindseth”)

Russian Nuclear Strategy and Conventional inferiority (attached)

National Strategy for Critical and Emerging Technologies (attached)

How the United States Won the Cold War (attached)

Fit for Purpose? The US Strategic Posture in 2030 and Beyond (attached)

CSIS Analysis of the FY 2021 Defense Budget (attached)

1962 -- Cuban Missile Crisis begins

URL: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-cuban-missile-crisis-begins

Author: History.com Editors

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins on October 14, 1962, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict.

Photographs taken by a high-altitude U-2 spy plane offered incontrovertible evidence that Soviet-made medium-range missiles in Cuba—capable of carrying nuclear warheads—were now stationed 90 miles off the American coastline. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over Cuba had been steadily increasing since the failed April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, in which Cuban refugees, armed and trained by the United States, landed in Cuba and attempted to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.

Though the invasion did not succeed, Castro was convinced that the United States would try again, and set out to get more military assistance from the Soviet Union. During the next year, the number of Soviet advisors in Cuba rose to more than 20,000.  Rumors began that Russia was also moving missiles and strategic bombers onto the island. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev may have decided to so dramatically up the stakes in the Cold War for several reasons.

He may have believed that the United States was indeed going to invade Cuba and provided the weapons as a deterrent. Facing criticism at home from more hard-line members of the Soviet communist hierarchy, he may have thought a tough stand might win him support. Khrushchev also had always resented that U.S. nuclear missiles were stationed near the Soviet Union (in Turkey, for example), and putting missiles in Cuba might have been his way of redressing the imbalance.

Two days after the pictures were taken, after being developed and analyzed by intelligence officers, they were presented to President Kennedy. During the next two weeks, the United States and the Soviet Union would come as close to nuclear war as they ever had, and a fearful world awaited the outcome.

READ MORE: The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Timeline 

STRATEGIC DETERRENt COALITION:  A non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization of concerned citizens with the mission of educating and informing the public and decision makers on the importance of a valid Nuclear Triad and strategic weapons

THE ASSOCIATION OF AIR FORCE MISSILEERS: Is a tax exempt, non-profit for all who have earned the United States Air Force Missile Badge or the Missile and Space badge, as well as other with an interest in past or current USAF missile and space systems.  AAFM Mission: Preserving the Heritage of Air Force Missiles and the people involved with them; Recognizing Outstanding Missileers; Keeping Missileers Informed; Encouraging Meetings and Reunions; Providing a Single Point of Contact for Missileers

The Strategic Forces Association: A small, Washington D.C. based niche trade association focused on US Strategic Forces, Nuclear Enterprise, Missile Defense, Hypersonics, NC3, and young professional development in industry and government. SFA has served as a valuable forum for discussing actionable ideas and advancing sound national security solutions within our focus areas.

Tom   

The Strategic Deterrence Coalition (SDC) sponsored ICBM Contractors’ (ICons) Weekly News Letter is Not-for-profit, educational/informational publication and DOES NOT reflect the position(s) of any company, agency or other entity. All material presented below has not been altered and is provided under “FAIR USE” in public law. – SDC ICons Information Coordinator/Distribution Director

Stay well and stay safe!

THE NEWS 

ICONs Weekly

85 Pages of reading in this week’s ICons Weekly

Contributions by Consultants:

SUSAN CORNWELL:

·       8 Pages of Articles and Analysis & Budget Data

PETER HUESSY:

·       Weekly Update (38 Pages Attached)

·       Russian Modernization Timeline

·       US Nuclear Modernization IOC Pie Chart

·       Link to Mitchell Institute Video Seminars: https://www.mitchellaerospacepower.org/aerospace-nation

ERIN NEAL:

·       Weekly Update (10 Pages attached)

Attached DoD & Congressional Letters:

Attached Articles & Videos

GAO Report to Congress:  NUCLEAR WEAPONS:  NNSA Should Further Develop Cost, Schedule, and Risk Information for the W87-1 Warhead Program

STRATEGIC DETERRENt COALITION:  A non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization of concerned citizens with the mission of educating and informing the public and decision makers on the importance of a valid Nuclear Triad and strategic weapons

THE ASSOCIATION OF AIR FORCE MISSILEERS: Is a tax exempt, non-profit for all who have earned the United States Air Force Missile Badge or the Missile and Space badge, as well as other with an interest in past or current USAF missile and space systems.  AAFM Mission: Preserving the Heritage of Air Force Missiles and the people involved with them; Recognizing Outstanding Missileers; Keeping Missileers Informed; Encouraging Meetings and Reunions; Providing a Single Point of Contact for Missileers

The Strategic Forces Association: A small, Washington D.C. based niche trade association focused on US Strategic Forces, Nuclear Enterprise, Missile Defense, Hypersonics, NC3, and young professional development in industry and government. SFA has served as a valuable forum for discussing actionable ideas and advancing sound national security solutions within our focus areas.

Tom   

The Strategic Deterrence Coalition (SDC) sponsored ICBM Contractors’ (ICons) Weekly News Letter is Not-for-profit, educational/informational publication and DOES NOT reflect the position(s) of any company, agency or other entity. All material presented below has not been altered and is provided under “FAIR USE” in public law. – SDC ICons Information Coordinator/Distribution Director

Stay well and stay safe!

Upcoming Virtual Seminars

Minot Task Force 21

22 September Minot Task Force 21 Deterrence Conference "Seeking and Securing National Consensus on Nuclear Deterrence and Modernization"

PLEASE RSVP NOW

Registration is now open for the Sept 22, 2020 Triad Conference "Seeking and Securing National Consensus on Nuclear Deterrence and Modernization".

To rsvp and receive a Zoom password, please reply to this email or call the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce at 701.852.6000.(Letter Attached)

Strategic Deterrent Coalition

SDC Virtual Symposium on October 1, 2020

PLEASE RSVP NOW!!!

The Board of Directors of the Strategic Deterrent Coalition has rescheduled the SDC Symposium for May 5 - 6, 2021 at the Mystic Marriott Hotel in Groton, CT.  The SDC will hold a virtual

THE NEWS 

ICONs Weekly

90  Pages of reading in this week’s ICons Weekly

Contributions by Consultants:

SUSAN CORNWELL:

·       6 Pages of Articles and Analysis & Budget Data

PETER HUESSY:

·       Weekly Update (36 Pages Attached)

·       Link to Mitchell Institute Video Seminars: https://www.mitchellaerospacepower.org/aerospace-nation

ERIN NEAL:

·       Weekly Update (13 Pages attached)

Attached DoD & Congressional Letters:

Attached Articles & Videos

SPECIAL ANNOUNCMENTS:  Please See Below

DATES IN 2020

symposium event on October 1, 2020 and we will provide more details as our agenda settles.  We already have commitments from senior speakers. Virtual Invite Letter attached.

STRATEGIC DETERRENt COALITION:  A non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization of concerned citizens with the mission of educating and informing the public and decision makers on the importance of a valid Nuclear Triad and strategic weapons

THE ASSOCIATION OF AIR FORCE MISSILEERS: Is a tax exempt, non-profit for all who have earned the United States Air Force Missile Badge or the Missile and Space badge, as well as other with an interest in past or current USAF missile and space systems.  AAFM Mission: Preserving the Heritage of Air Force Missiles and the people involved with them; Recognizing Outstanding Missileers; Keeping Missileers Informed; Encouraging Meetings and Reunions; Providing a Single Point of Contact for Missileers

The Strategic Forces Association: A small, Washington D.C. based niche trade association focused on US Strategic Forces, Nuclear Enterprise, Missile Defense, Hypersonics, NC3, and young professional development in industry and government. SFA has served as a valuable forum for discussing actionable ideas and advancing sound national security solutions within our focus areas.

Tom   

The Strategic Deterrence Coalition (SDC) sponsored ICBM Contractors’ (ICons) Weekly News Letter is Not-for-profit, educational/informational publication and DOES NOT reflect the position(s) of any company, agency or other entity. All material presented below has not been altered and is provided under “FAIR USE” in public law. – SDC ICons Information Coordinator/Distribution Director