Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus
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Walter Pincus reports on intelligence, defense and foreign policy for The Washingon Post. He first came to the paper in 1966 and has covered numerous subjects, including nuclear weapons and arms control, politics and congressional investigations. He was among Post reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Among many other honors were the 1977 George Polk Award for articles exposing the neutron warhead, a 1981 Emmy from writing a CBS documentary on strategic nuclear weapons, and most recently the 2010 Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy for columns on foreign policy.

Latest by Walter Pincus

Nuclear weapons just don’t make sense

Nuclear weapons just don’t make sense

Nuclear weapons are terror weapons, and basically unusable.That’s one reason why no rational strategy has ever been developed to justify them. Events in the past 10 days make my case.

Retired Gen. James Cartwright offers a fresh view on defense

Retired Gen. James Cartwright offers a fresh view on defense

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chair spoke frankly about defense spending, and hopefully the Senate Armed Services Committee will listen.

House approves defense spending bill despite veto threat from White House

House approves defense spending bill despite veto threat from White House

Bill totaling $642.5 billion in spending for the next fiscal year would also limit Obama’s authority.

House puts squeeze on military’s ‘musical arsenal’

Lawmakers approve a measure limiting Pentagon spending on bands next year