The Secretary of Defense Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management has found that there has been a “loss of attention and focus” within the Department of Defense as a whole on the nuclear deterrence mission. Here, task force chair James Schlesinger (right) briefs reporters in the Pentagon on the findings of the panel’s phase 2 report, Jan. 8, 2009. Task force members retired Adm. Edmund Giambastiani (left) and National Security Council official Franklin Miller, look on.
DOD photo by R. D. Ward
