Please Note:  Daily posting and Answers emails will end for the school year on Tuesday, May 28th.

1. The first paragraph of a news article should answer the questions who, what, where and when. List the who, what, where and when of this news item. (NOTE: The remainder of a news article provides details on the why and/or how.)

2. What can Boeing/US Air Force CHAMP missiles do? Be specific.

3. How does the CHAMP missile work?

4. a) How do high power microwave missiles differ from cyber warfare?
b) How do they differ from EMPs?

5. The Daily Wire reports:

Tensions have risen sharply in recent weeks with North Korea, which has resumed missile testing, and Iran, which has reportedly been behind multiple provocations in the Middle East in recent weeks.

"In response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force," National Security Adviser John Bolton said earlier this month. "The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces."

President Donald Trump will reportedly visit South Korea next month to discuss with South Korean President Moon Jae-in how to deal with the latest missile tests from North Korea.

a) Officials from North Korea and Iran are talking tough as their aggressive actions are met with firmness by the Trump administration.
Considering the constant threats from these rouge regimes, how do you think the leaders of these countries will react upon learning that the U.S. possesses such a weapon? (Would this cause them to think that it might be in their best interests to negotiate with the U.S., or would it cause them to carry out their threats? - If so, what should we do then?)

b) Both regimes have nuclear weapons programs they developed in secret in defiance of the United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. They are not to be trusted. The CHAMP system was successfully tested in 2012 but then shelved by the Obama administration due to sequestration budget cuts. The Pentagon under Obama did not fund the program, or appear to prioritize it; the Pentagon under Trump funded it quickly. Considering the threats from Iran and North Korea, which have been continuous for decades, how important is it to have this new technology fully operational?

c) Do you think the U.S. should launch a pre-emptive attack (small or large) on Iran or North Korea’s nuclear facilities? Explain your answer.

6. Reporter Ronald Kessler writes in paragraphs 10-11:
[Due to] sequestration budget cuts, the CHAMP missiles did not become operational under the Obama administration. But after I [reporter Ronald Kessler] emailed then Trump National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster in August 2017 information about CHAMP that I was about to include in my book,…he thanked me for letting him know about the capability, agreed to an interview, and ordered a briefing from the Pentagon. As a result, the Pentagon funded the program and ordered Air Force training worldwide to deploy and operate the missile systems.

This is hard to believe. Did it really take this reporter to inform the Pentagon of this program? If the system is all Boeing and the Air Force says it is - warfare without casualties (collateral damage) - could it be possible that the people in the Pentagon did not work harder to make it operable once the 2012 test was a success? What do you think?