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Elaine M. Grossman

Elaine M. Grossman is a special correspondent for National Journal, and executive editor and senior correspondent for Global Security Newswire. She is a veteran national security and foreign affairs reporter whose articles have won 14 national journalism awards over the past dozen years, including top honors from the National Press Club and Society of Professional Journalists for investigative, analytical, online and breaking-news reporting. In 2009, Atlantic Media recognized her "terrain mastery" with its highest editorial prize, the Chairman's Award. Grossman's articles have also appeared in several major newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald. In 2003, Grossman served as an Iraq war correspondent for U.S. News & World Report during a six-week stint at ground-combat headquarters in Kuwait. She subsequently wrote about the opening days of the conflict as a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, winning a top National Press Club award for the article. Previously senior correspondent and chief editor at the independent investigative weekly Inside the Pentagon, Grossman holds a bachelor's degree from Washington University and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University.
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Air Force Brass Confident of Nuclear Base Security Following Deadly Navy Incident

September 20, 2013 FROM NEXTGOV arrow NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. -- A two-star Air Force general responsible for overseeing atomic matters has voiced confidence in security at service bases housing nuclear-tipped ground-based ballistic missiles and aircraft-delivered cruise missiles and gravity bombs, following Monday’s deadly shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington. Asked if the Air Force would ...

Arab States Reintroduce Measure Opposing Israel's Nuclear Weapons

September 18, 2013 WASHINGTON -- Arab nations at a meeting of a key U.N. body this week have reintroduced a measure opposing Israeli nuclear weapons, a move fueled by growing acrimony over the failure thus far to convene talks over a proposed ban on weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. The ...

U.S. Envoy Questions Middle East Verve for WMD-Free Zone

July 29, 2013 A senior U.S. State Department official in an exclusive interview called Egypt’s walkout from a recent U.N.-sponsored conference “theatrics” that do not help the Arab state’s bid to create a special Middle East zone free of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. Cairo made news in April when its delegate left ...

Nuclear Doomsday is Coming Today. You’ll Want to See This.

July 18, 2013 It’s Thursday, July 18, and nuclear Armageddon is upon us. Or at least you might be excused for thinking so when you glimpse on your colleague’s computer monitor a compelling simulation of a mushroom cloud rising over your home town. That’s the 2.0 version of NUKEMAP -- now in three ...

Talks on Mideast WMD Ban an Unintended Casualty of Egyptian Coup?

July 8, 2013 Egypt's frustration over obstacles toward meeting its longtime vision of convening an international conference on banning weapons of mass destruction from the Middle East was high enough in April to prompt a disgruntled walkout by Cairo's official delegation at a U.N.-sponsored meeting. Just over two months later, though, the North ...

Pentagon Leaders Put Support Contractors on Notice for Deep Cuts

June 12, 2013 Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his top budget deputy on Tuesday signaled they intend to make deep cuts in contractor personnel who help manage programs in almost every sector of the Pentagon bureaucracy. The Defense Department today employs an estimated 700,000 service contractors who, in many cases, work side-by-side with ...

Nuclear Arsenal Subject to Pentagon Cuts, But New Subs May Escape Ax

May 24, 2013 The U.S. nuclear arsenal might be subject to cutbacks by a major budget review under way at the Defense Department, despite enjoying relative protection this year from largely across-the-board sequester spending reductions, a senior Defense official said on Thursday. “Every part of the program, including nuclear weapons, is being addressed,” ...

Former Defense Brass Object to ‘More Restrictive’ Nuclear Trade Policies

May 16, 2013 FROM NEXTGOV arrow A half-dozen former U.S. national security leaders last month implored President Obama to avoid tightening restrictions on foreign nuclear cooperation in the interest of nonproliferation. “The U.S. civil nuclear industry is one of [Washington’s] most powerful tools for advancing its nuclear nonproliferation agenda,” according to an April 25 letter obtained ...

Pentagon Weighs Refurbishing or Replacing Ballistic Missiles

April 18, 2013 FROM NEXTGOV arrow The U.S. Defense Department is weighing the feasibility of extending the service life of the nation’s aging Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles versus replacing them in coming decades with brand new nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. The 450 Minuteman 3s are expected to last through 2030, but might be retained longer if ...

Amid Deep Cuts, the Pentagon Labors to Keep Its Forces Ready for Korea

April 11, 2013 As tensions escalate on the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. military is striving to maintain peak readiness for forces assigned to the region, Defense Department leaders said on Wednesday. Deep cutbacks in training and preparedness accounts taken this year because of the so-called budget sequester are making the job more difficult. ...