• Obama, the Oracle of Omaha & Nuclear Power

    Updated: 2011-02-28 08:17:00
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  • Gaddafi House Party: Zenga Zenga Song

    Updated: 2011-02-27 23:32:25
    If one of the homeless on lower Wacker Drive could become dictator…..  I’m not sure what is being said here but as Gaddafi speaks mostly in violent, insane, drivel anyway, the remix satire remains spot on:

  • The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War

    Updated: 2011-02-27 17:23:07
    The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich and James Lacey (Ed.) Just received this review copy courtesy of Nicole at Cambridge University Press.  The authors contributing chapters also include Colin S. Gray, Marcus Jones, Jeremy Black and John A. Lynn III and the tome has been dedicated to the current combatant [...]

  • Wikistrat: If Kim Jong-il Died…..

    Updated: 2011-02-26 17:23:33
    Wikistrat is running an interactive futurist simulation on possible pathways of change and regime change of the DPRK. I am participating alongside Thomas P.M. Barnett and HistoryGuy99 and the Wikistrat analytical team. Join us here. Tom’s take: New Simulation - The Death of King Jong-Il …We have just launched our first open community simulation, where our analysts and subscribers [...]

  • GOV/2011/7 & GOV/2011/8

    Updated: 2011-02-26 01:49:05
    It was a long day — I was giving a talk!  In any event, everyone and their grandmothers have copies of the IAEA Director-General’s Reports on Iran and Syria. But here they are anyway.

  • "You Don't Say?" Quote of the Day: SSBN(X) edition

    Updated: 2011-02-25 15:55:52
    “We know general specs....It [the SSBN(X)] must be able to take care of a crew and have oxygen, but the specifics of the power and weight and layout of all that will now happen as a result of this money being in the '12 budget. We can rapidly move down that path.”Adm. Joseph Mulloy, the Navy deputy assistant secretary for budget matters, commenting on the SSBN(X) fleet at a February 14 press conference. Note: GSN's Elaine Grossman has been doing some great reporting on the SSBN(X) program in recent months.  ook for some more comments from NoH on the program in the near future.     

  • Spain’s nuclear spin

    Updated: 2011-02-25 09:45:00
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  • Iran’s Ex-Negotiator Presents Plan to Resolve US-Iran Nuclear Stalemate

    Updated: 2011-02-24 23:30:55
    Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog Iran†s Ex-Negotiator Presents Plan to Resolve US-Iran Nuclear Stalemate Kingston Feb 24, 2011 0 Guest post by Alex Bollfrass Below is a summary of remarks made on 2 24 at Princeton University by Hossein Mousavian , Iran's lead nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005. Hossein Mousavian , Iran†s lead negotiator from 2003 to 2005, presented his vision for a resolution to the confrontation over Iran†s nuclear program . In his first public statement since his 2007 arrest , Ambassador Mousavian laid out a plan for political and diplomatic engagement with Iran . The ex-negotiator described a space for mutual agreement that would

  • Nuclear News: Nuclear Power Continues World Dependence on Middle East Oil

    Updated: 2011-02-24 10:14:00
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  • Wikistrat: Barnett on US National Military Strategy

    Updated: 2011-02-23 03:02:50
    Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett on the new US National Military Strategy: To subscribe to WIKISTRAT for their bulletins, interactive futurist simulation models and client-specific analytical services, go here. Tom did a very nice job with this piece, particularly his reference to the historically underexamined but diplomatically significant Nixon Doctrine. He’s right. The strategic shift is a radical departure from [...]

  • FY 2011 and FY 2012 Budgets for Nuclear Security

    Updated: 2011-02-22 23:53:23
    The international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials and keep our nation safe from nuclear terrorism is at a crossroads. Check out our primer over at the mothership to find out why.

  • Chinese Help on Khushab-4?

    Updated: 2011-02-22 20:03:48
    It isn’t every day that I read a New York Times editorial and start making phone calls but it did happen this weekend right after I arrived in the Nation’s Capital for a stay here and a week of hard work here. On Sunday, a Times leader writer had this to say about Pakistan’s plutonium [...]

  • GMTA?

    Updated: 2011-02-22 19:55:04
    [ by Charles Cameron ] It’s not exactly news – Napoleon supposedly said “Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four” — and these two quotes say pretty much the same thing, translated and updated, don’t they? Kudos to my blog-friend Christopher Anzalone, who keeps the rest of us current on digital [...]

  • When Dictators Go Mad - Gaddafi Sentences Libya to Death

    Updated: 2011-02-22 19:27:55
    “Any Libyan who lifts an arm shall be punished with death….Any Libyan who undermines the sovereign state will be punished with death.” “Those who commit crimes against the army shall be punished with death. Anybody who works for a foreign company that undermines the country will be punished with death.” Twitter is absolutely amazing on reporting [...]

  • Arms Control With and Without Agreements

    Updated: 2011-02-22 17:15:58
    Ken Adelman loves Shakespeare. The Reagan administration thought that the right stage for him would be the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, after its first appointee as Director, Eugene Rostow, became a bit too obstreperous. Rostow was a heavy hitter. Before coming to ACDA, he was Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger, which [...]

  • New START's Nuclear Compromise

    Updated: 2011-02-22 16:10:10
    Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog New START's Nuclear Compromise Kingston Feb 22, 2011 0 The residents of Nevada County California woke up yesterday morning to an op-ed on New START's recent entry into force by yours truly . I'm sure it changed their lives . Here's an : excerpt In a political climate paralyzed by partisanship on other issues , the bipartisan vote of approval for New START demonstrates that it's possible for Senators to put aside political differences in the name of the national interest . This bodes well for the Senate's successful consideration of future national security issues , including the crisis in . Egypt Nuclear weapons may have

  • FY 2011 and FY 2012 Budgets for Nuclear Security

    Updated: 2011-02-22 16:03:00
    The international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear materials in four years and keep our nation safe from nuclear terrorism is at a crossroads.

  • What Would States Sacrifice for Nonproliferation?

    Updated: 2011-02-22 16:00:00
    Center Advisory Board Member, Len Weiss has published "What Would States Sacrifice for Non Proliferation?" in the March 2011 issue of The Nonproliferation Review.

  • Thoroughly Modern Nukes for FY2012

    Updated: 2011-02-21 00:12:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Quotable In the face of the threats that nuclear warfare preparations put to all mankind , it is my duty , as a man and as an American citizen , to voice both my protest against these preparations and my pleas for a constructive policy . instead Albert Bigelow , Captain of The Golden Rule , who twice attempted to sail into the U.S . atmospheric testing grounds in the Marshall . Islands Sunday , February 20, 2011 Thoroughly Modern Nukes for FY2012 , Friends Abolitionists beware It would be easy to go through an entire bottle of ibuprofen not in one sitting of course while attempting to make any sense of all the analysis of the U.S . Fiscal Year 2012 Budget As for the defense budget the great

  • Big ‘Toping

    Updated: 2011-02-20 15:49:18
    I just don’t know what to say. The Onion is sheer genius.

  • Extended Deterrence

    Updated: 2011-02-18 02:44:47
    The next couple of weeks are all extended deterrence for me — I am teaching a course on the subject in Monterey, focusing on the decision to retire the TLAM-N as a case study, and making some remarks at another event back in Washington the week after. And, I’ve penned a short op-ed for the [...]

  • Cuts in House CR to nuclear security “a grave error and dangerous for American security.”

    Updated: 2011-02-17 15:07:17
    Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Nukes on a Blog Cuts in House CR to nuclear security “a grave error and dangerous for American security.” Kingston Feb 17, 2011 0 So says our Dear Leader in Politico this morning : John Isaacs , president of the Council for a Livable World , who tracks nuclear modernization and proliferation programs from an arms-control perspective , raised a cautionary . note Adding the 300 million for NNSA funding this fiscal year or adding back 602 million for nuclear nonproliferation programs that also were cut in the continuing resolution stands a better chance when the CR comes to the Senate in March than it does this week in the House , Isaacs said

  • House Votes to Cut F-35 Extra Engine

    Updated: 2011-02-16 21:36:31
    Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Security Matters House Votes to Cut F-35 Extra Engine Laicie Feb 16, 2011 0 f136 F-35 extra engine prototype The saga continues in the fight to fund the F-35 extra engine . Today , the House voted 233-198 on an amendment that would cancel the . program The vote split both Republicans and Democrats , with over 100 Republicans and around 130 Democrats voting yes . Rep . Tom Rooney R-FL took the lead on the amendment , crediting House GOP leaders with allowing a vote on the issue despite Speaker John Boehner†s . opposition Freshman Republicans in the House were initially hesitant to trim military spending , but have since broken ranks with their

  • Egypt's Success, North Korea's Distress

    Updated: 2011-02-16 04:27:49
    Nukes of Hazard Blog Subscribe to Our Feed Print Email Link Share add to facebook add to del.icio.us add to digg add to yahoo related at technorati Egypt's Success , North Korea's Distress Duyeon Feb 15, 2011 0 Commemorating North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's . birthday The Egyptian revolution has raised hopes of democracy in the region and beyond . But North Korea is a different story . Click here for the full . story North Korea Egypt Mubarak Kim Jong-il 70th birthday nuclear all tags Egypt's Success , North Korea's Distress 0 Comments Post a Comment Display Threaded Minimal Nested Flat Flat Unthreaded You are not logged . in In order to post a comment , you must be logged in . If you have a member account , please log in to comment If not , you can make an account by clicking right here

  • On Spinning Libyan Centrifuges

    Updated: 2011-02-15 19:13:30
    In a November 2009 leaked cable, US Embassy Tripoli quoted Saif Ghaddafi  “inquiring about the status of the centrifuges Libya gave up,” with Ghaddafi complaining that “the fact that the centrifuges were sent to the United States and are still there, rather than under IAEA surveillance and control was a ‘big insult to the Leader.’” [...]

  • Egypt's Success, North Korea's Distress

    Updated: 2011-02-15 14:55:00
    The Egyptian revolution has raised hopes of democracy in the region and beyond. But North Korea is a different story.

  • Analysis of FY 2012 Budget Request

    Updated: 2011-02-14 14:30:00
    For Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, which begins on October 1, 2011, the Obama Administration has requested a base budget of $553 billion for the Department of Defense (DOD). This is $13 billion below the Pentagon’s Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) estimate, released last year, but represents about 3 percent in real growth over the funding the department would receive for FY 2011 under the current continuing resolution, which expires on March 4.

  • A Serious Russian Space Proposal

    Updated: 2011-02-09 04:53:56
    In 2007, Alexei Arbatov, Vladimir Dvorkin and Sergey Oznobishchev helped the Stimson Center develop a draft Code of Conduct for responsible space-faring nations, but they were unsatisfied with the result. As Sergey writes in a fine new monograph, Outer Space: Weapons, Diplomacy, and Security (2010) published by the Carnegie Endowment, Stimson’s proposal wasn’t nearly ambitious [...]

  • UN Sanctions Committee & North Korea's UEP

    Updated: 2011-02-06 23:43:00
    The UN North Korea Sanctions Committee is expected to convene later this month, and all eyes are on how it will discuss a UN report on Pyongyang's uranium enrichment program. Meanwhile, China continues to oppose such a discussion at the UN.

  • How New START Was Won

    Updated: 2011-02-04 16:57:00
    On February 2, President Obama officially ratified the New START treaty in a low-key signing ceremony at the White House. The eight month-long campaign to win the Senate’s approval of the treaty, however, was anything but low-key. It was a knock down, drag out fight, the outcome of which was in doubt until the very end. In this new analysis, Kingston Reif outlines some of the key factors that pushed New START across the finish line.

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