Walter Pincus – The Cipher Brief

Walter Pincus
Columnist, The Cipher Brief

Walter Pincus is a Columnist and the Senior National Security Reporter at The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. In 2002, he and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He also won an Emmy in 1981 and the 2010 Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy. He can be reached at wpincus@thecipherbrief.com.

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Extending the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

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OPINION — There was a flurry of arms control talk after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Trump administration is “at the very beginning of conversations about renewing” the 2010...

The Devil is in the Details for the F-35

April 30, 2019April 29, 2019

Walter Pincus’ Fine Print in The Cipher Brief — OPINION –A lack of spare parts has kept some 350 F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighters, already deployed at sites worldwide, from...

Russia's U.S. Election Strategy by the Numbers

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OPINION — Award-winning national security columnist Walter Pincus uncovers Russia’s strategy to interfere with U.S. Elections by the numbers, based on the Mueller report. This is Cipher...

Training the Next Field of Space Warriors

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The U.S. is trying to quickly gear up the nation’s ability to fight in space and our best clues into just how they’re planning to do it, are coming from congressional testimony. This is...

Who Will Man the Wall?

March 12, 2019March 11, 2019

OPINION — Set aside for a moment how you feel about building the wall. There is a more immediate issue in controlling the flow of illegal traffic and drugs on the southwest border, and that is...

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