Based in Washington, Michael Bruno is Aviation Week Network’s Executive Editor for Business. He oversees coverage of aviation, aerospace and defense business issues, and is editor in chief of Aviation Week Executive Intelligence newsletters. Beyond reporting, Bruno helps organize related Aviation Week conferences, hosts podcasts and webinars, and speaks publicly as a subject matter expert on industry issues. Since joining Aviation Week in 2005, he has won several Jesse H. Neal and Aerospace Media awards. He has a master's degree from Syracuse University and a bachelor's from Vanderbilt University.
William B. Scott (Colorado Springs), David A. Fulghum and Michael Bruno (Washington)
Escalating activity at suspected underground nuclear weapon test sites in North Korea is reinforcing a declaration by Kim Jong Il's regime that it will detonate a fission-type nuclear device, ostensibly to deter a "U.S. threat of aggression."
Skepticism inside Washington's Beltway continues over the Defense Department's desire to refit some Trident nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with conventional warheads for a prompt global strike capability, with opponents and influential lawmakers suggesting the Pentagon stick with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and their precision-strike munitions.
Iran has its forces training to cripple an invader--envisioned as the U.S.--by attacking vulnerable lines of communications, avoiding the foe's combat forces and, through terrorist groups, by striking back at soft, non-military international targets, says the senior U.S. commandeer in the Middle East.
