• Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for July 27th – July 30th, 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-31 13:56:00
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  • Wikistrat Blog

    Updated: 2012-07-31 02:49:08
    Wikistrat, where I am a senior analyst for their North America desk, has started a blog featuring their analysts and experts. We’ll see how the Wikistrat Blog evolves, but for now here are a few sample posts: Ask Wikistrat’s Chief Analyst Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett  Q: Timothy Kelly-  Dr. Barnett, how do you think nuclear proliferation will [...]

  • Peace Activists Infiltrate Y-12 "Security" Complex

    Updated: 2012-07-30 21:09:43
    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 Peace Activists Infiltrate Y-12 Security Complex Nickolas Roth Jul 30, 2012 0 HEUMF as seen at . night Perhaps Y-12 should rethink calling itself a “national security complex.” Over the weekend a group of protesters consisting of an octogenarian and two baby boomers infiltrated a high security area at the Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility in Oak Ridge , Tennessee . At approximately 4:30am on Saturday , July 28, the group , referring to themselves as “Transform Now Plowshares” protesters , posted a banner and poured blood over a wall at Y-12†s new Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility HEUMF which serves as

  • The Olympic Truce

    Updated: 2012-07-29 23:51:20
    [ by Charles Cameron -- the Truce, great gospel music, and athletes in ads in slomo -- a personal view ] . . If there are two things about the Olympics I like, they would be the Olympic Truce, and athletes in slow motion. Here’s what the IOC’s site has to say about the Truce: [...]

  • Barlow on COIN and Failure

    Updated: 2012-07-29 22:03:26
    Some astute observations on COIN practice from the founder of Executive Outcomes, Eeben Barlow: ….Governments, despite often being the prime reason why an insurgency starts, are often only too keen to make the armed forces responsible for establishing workable governance in areas that have become positively disposed towards the insurgency. As it is an internal [...]

  • Non-Proliferation Center for Arms Control Non-Proliferation

    Updated: 2012-07-29 20:32:05
    Join our mailing list Contact Us Center for Arms Control Skip to main content Home About Us Mission What We Do Meet the Staff Board of Directors Our Funders Our Supporters Jobs Internships Military Outreach Issues Afghanistan Iraq Biological and Chemical Weapons Iran Missile Defense Security Spending Non-Proliferation North Korea Nuclear Terrorism Nuclear Weapons Recent Policy Analysis Publications Op-eds Columns Reports Fact Sheets Other Resources Statements Letters Press Center in the News Press Releases Multimedia Contribute Non-Proliferation Home Issues Non-Proliferation Email Print Share Non-Proliferation Atomic bomb explosion in the Marshall Islands . National . Archives Since entering into force in 1970, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons , commonly known as the

  • The Next Civ-Nuke Deal?

    Updated: 2012-07-29 04:25:13
    If you liked the 2005 U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement, you’ll love providing U.S. technology or hardware to India for ballistic missile defenses. The deal between President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, affirmed by the Nuclear Suppliers Group and the Indian Parliament in 2008, was characterized as a boon for U.S.-India relations and [...]

  • Some New Old Books

    Updated: 2012-07-28 06:42:00
      Arakcheev: grand vizier of the Russian Empire by Michael Jenkins Time Of Stalin, The: Portrait Of A Tyranny by Anton Antonov-Ovseenko I just returned from a short vacation in Door County and was able to squeeze in some time to browse some of their independent and used bookstores. One in Ellison Bay had an unusually good Russian and [...]

  • "The Failures of Missile Defense"

    Updated: 2012-07-27 17:59:55
    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 The Failures of Missile Defense Kingston Reif Jul 27, 2012 0 Center Senior Science Fellow Phil Coyle published an op-ed in the National Interest on July 26 on the scientific and technical basis of US missile defense programs , specifically the ground based midcourse defense GMD system i.e . national missile defense and the European Phased Adaptive Approach EPAA Here's how he begins : Two recent scientific assessments of U.S . missile-defense efforts show that these programs are chasing scientific dead ends , unworkable concepts and a flawed overall . architecture And here's how he ends : The administration and Congress need to

  • Learning Fukushima's lessons

    Updated: 2012-07-27 15:39:00
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  • The most contested piece of real-estate on earth

    Updated: 2012-07-27 02:21:25
    [ by Charles Cameron -- Jerusalem and apocalyptic sentiment, not at the emergency crash warning level, but still something to keep an eye out for ] . . If you’re interested, as I am, in the ways that end-times theology impacts geopolitics, whether in its Christian, Judaic or Islamic (Sunni or Shi’ite) formulations, then two [...]

  • When they say it’s a game-changer…

    Updated: 2012-07-26 21:25:35
    [ by Charles Cameron -- are they talking about shooting for a goal, hitting your target, making a move -- or lofting one up the fairway? ] . As you may have gathered, I really love that quote from the philosopher MacIntyre. Here we go again: Image courtesy of my friend Oink, aka Peter Feltham. [...]

  • Two TED Talks: Stavridis and van Uhm

    Updated: 2012-07-26 21:18:06
    [ by Charles Cameron -- talking across the military / civilian divide ] . . I thought these two TED talks — one given in Amsterdam by Gen. Petrus J.M. “Peter” van Uhm, current Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff, the other by Adm. James Stavridis, current Commander, U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and NATO’s Supreme [...]

  • Silent reading, silent thinking, bifocal glasses

    Updated: 2012-07-26 21:00:45
    [ by Charles Cameron -- two forms of creativity: far out and close in ] . . Some of the most obvious things aren’t obvious at all, until you think of them. The things my friend Derek Robinson talks about as being in the beforeground. Too close to notice / right under our noses all [...]

  • No compulsion in religion

    Updated: 2012-07-26 20:52:08
    [ by Charles Cameron -- conversion by force, the Qur'an -- and a question about space travel ] . Under the header, Africa: ‘Christians Must Convert’ Says Islamist Group, the Catholic Information Service for Africa reported recently: Islamist militants have claimed responsibility for the deaths of more than 50 people in north-central Nigeria – and [...]

  • What a Difference a Year Makes: Nuclear Bomb Refurbishment Will Now Cost $10 billion

    Updated: 2012-07-26 14:25:33
    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 What a Difference a Year Makes : Nuclear Bomb Refurbishment Will Now Cost 10 billion Nickolas Roth Jul 26, 2012 1 B61 Genie . Last year at this time , I was reading a National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA estimate stating that the Life Extension Program LEP for the B61 nuclear bomb would cost 3.9 billion , already making it the most expensive nuclear warhead upgrade in U.S . history . By May , 2012 that estimate had ballooned to 6 . billion At today†s Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee hearing , Senator Feinstein revealed that , according to the Pentagon†s Office of Cost Assessment and Program

  • We're Hiring!

    Updated: 2012-07-24 04:20:14
    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 We're Hiring Kingston Reif Jul 23, 2012 0 A Communications Officer . Job description . below Communications Officer The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Council for a Livable World are seeking to hire a Communications Officer . The Communications Officer†s focus will be on outreach to the press and . media The Communications Officer†s responsibilities will : include Editing , pitching and coordinating writing of articles for outside publication Drafting and sending press releases Monitoring and tracking coverage of the Center and Council in the media Serving as a point of contact for media requests Cultivating relationships

  • Falling Apart

    Updated: 2012-07-22 03:40:36
    Mike Moore reminded me a while back of this verse from William Butler Yeats’ classic poem, “The Second Coming“: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are [...]

  • Turner Goes Loco on Defense Appropriations Bill; Dicks Fights Back

    Updated: 2012-07-20 19:23:57
    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 Turner Goes Loco on Defense Appropriations Bill Dicks Fights Back Kingston Reif Jul 20, 2012 1 Rep . Norm Dicks D-WA On July 19 the House completed floor action on and passed the FY 2013 Defense Appropriations Bill H.R . 5856 by a vote of 326-90 Click here for our review of the Committee version of the bill . Click here for lessons learned from the . bill The House-passed version of the bill provides nearly 606 billion for the Pentagon base budget and war spending , a decrease of 1.1 billion below the Committee-passed version but still 2 billion above the Pentagon's request . The reduction is the result of a bipartisan amendment

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