The U.S. Navy’s first Afloat Forward Staging Base (Interim) (AFSB(I)) USS Ponce is making its debut at the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise 2012 (IMCMEX 12) through the end of this month.

Military exercises pose a threat to the nuclear non-proliferation regime and international security Russia’s deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus and the conduct of joint ...