A powerful Pentagon advisory board has called upon Defense Secretary Robert Gates to create a new position within DOD focused solely on nuclear weapons issues, along with shifting control of some of the Air Force's nuclear assets to U.S. Strategic Command. The new position, "assistant secretary of defense for the nuclear enterprise," would be tasked with advising Gates on "nuclear policy, acquisition, surety and command and control" functions relating to the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, the Defense Science Board states...
