Articles by W.J. Hennigan
We found 4 results.
Nuclear Weapons: The Price
W.J. Hennigan | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US is set to spend an estimated $1.7 trillion to revamp its nuclear arsenal. The spending spree is underway in at least 23 states and follows a decades-long freeze on designing, building or testing new nuclear weapons. Along with the subs, a new fleet of bomber jets, land-based missiles and thermonuclear warheads.
→ read full article
[Nobel Peace Laureate] President Obama, Who Promised to Sow Peace, Instead Led the Nation in War
Christi Parsons and W.J. Hennigan | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
Before he took office in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to end America’s military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, but he left a very different legacy. U.S. military have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
→ read full articleConstruction Is Complete on Behemoth Airship; First Flight Planned
W.J. Hennigan – Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan 2013
A massive cargo-carrying airship has taken shape inside one of the 17-story wooden blimp hangars at the former military base in Tustin. According to aircraft maker Worldwide Aeros Corp., construction is complete on a 36,000-pound blimp-like aircraft designed for the military to carry tons of cargo to remote areas around the world.
→ read full articleNew Generation of Unmanned Spy Planes: Faster, Deadlier Military Drones Getting Flight Tests in Mojave Desert
W.J. Hennigan - Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan 2011
Three drones being flown in the coming weeks are speedier, stealthier and higher-flying. An experimental spy plane with a wingspan almost the size of a Boeing 747’s took to the skies over the Mojave Desert last week in a secret test flight that may herald a new era in modern warfare with robotic planes flying higher, faster and with more firepower.
→ read full article