The danger of the spread of nuclear weapons 390 Nuclear Proliferation 2012-02-09T04:50:45 Ecologick Allysound barry.david.adams@googlemail.com Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World Blog 2012-02-08T20:59:38

We have an urgent opportunity to move closer to a nuclear weapons free world. Every president gets one chance to revise and update US nuclear weapons strategy. That chance is coming in just a few weeks, when President Obama will make critical decisions about the role and size of the US nuclear arsenal. [1] The [...]

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In this new analysis Policy Fellow Nickolas Roth explains the origins and purpose of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF), its significance in terms of U.S. nuclear strategy, and potential consequences.

0f60f8f15f4710c1dccd1a87a99b68e0 zenpundit.com 2012-02-08T16:41:56

Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1892 An estimated 2, 333, 972 Americans have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001. Of these, 977, 542 were deployed more than once. When final combat operations end in Afghanistan and the numbers from peripheral theater operations against al Qaida are counted, these figures [...]

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: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady Gaga needs another new . outfit Rep . Ed Markey D-MA Tuesday , February 7, 2012 Oppose the U.S . Government's Nuclear Missile Test Launch On February 24th , the first Friday of Lent , there will be global peace protests surrounding the U.S . government's scheduled launch one of the government's countless test launches of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile ICBM These ICBM's , which are scattered around the U.S . in their underground silos armed with nuclear warheads , are ready to launch on warning by the President's command . These missile test launches serve only to increase

525aba3099685b8c751c887294d341f2 Arms Control Wonk 2012-02-07T20:31:35

During the second half of this week there will be a flurry of meetings in Washington on the subject of negotiating with Iran about its nuclear program. These will include this one hosted at the Stimson Center and held by the Arms Control Association, and a discussion at the University of Maryland with former Iranian negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian, now a [...]

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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 Failure of the Conference on Disarmament Matthew Fargo Feb 07, 2012 0 Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller It has been over 15 years since the Conference on Disarmament has played a significant role in developing multilateral arms control treaties and disarmament agreements . Even the Conference†s most recent success , the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty , was not adopted before being sent to the United Nations General Assembly Other efforts to negotiate a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty or a Space Preservation Treaty have stalled in the recent past Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller has

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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 Iran Watch Director of National Intelligence Clarifies Iran Threats Tara Chandra Feb 07, 2012 0 DNI Clapper In his testimony in a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last week entitled “Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States,” Director of National Intelligence James R . Clapper Jr . updated Congress on the status of Iran†s nuclear program , and its relevance for U.S . national security . While Clapper†s statement that it is possible that perceived threats from the United States could encourage Iranian terrorists to seek targets on American soil grabbed most of the headlines , his testimony is an important

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MIT researcher Andreas Mershin has a vision that within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material.

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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 Conventional Prompt Strike – A New Name for the Same Old Bad Idea Matthew Fargo Feb 06, 2012 0 The concept of delivering a conventional warhead anywhere in the world within an hour has been discussed since the Bush administration Conventional prompt formally global strike may help reduce the role of nuclear weapons , acting as a substitute against some targets where existing conventional forces are incapable of attacking quickly but nuclear weapons are inappropriate . It is intended as a niche capability to be deployed only in extraordinary circumstances . Congress ended one such proposal designed to replace the nuclear warheads on Trident D5

f4260a083a50ddbc3090ad570895eafa zenpundit.com 2012-02-06T16:22:55

 Octavian Manea continues his excellent series at SWJ, interviewing the leading theorists, practitioners and critics of pop-centric COIN.  This most recent interview is with Dr. John Nagl, formerly president of CNAS, author of Learning how to Eat Soup with a Knife and currently a professor at the Naval War College. Nagl has been, it hardly need be [...]

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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 Happy 1st Brithday , New START Kingston Reif Feb 05, 2012 0 Today marks the 1st anniversary of the entry into force of the New START treaty . I used my February Bulletin column to muse on the treaty's implementation to date as well as future prospects for further nuclear arms . reductions Here's an excerpt : The Obama administration has stated that it seeks additional verifiable reductions with Russia not only in deployed strategic forces , but also in non-deployed strategic warheads and nonstrategic i.e . tactical nuclear weapons , which aren't currently limited by any treaty . This would greatly benefit US . security For

b27c66d4c7cd6c7fb88e596344632806 Nukes of Hazard Blog: 2012-02-03T21:31:37

Not that I'm a bitter Green Bay fan or anything... My prediction, for what its worth: Patriots 30 - Giants 24.

4c0f1ae034f1bde985d2ee0b5997cd34 zenpundit.com 2012-02-03T19:57:31

[ by Charles Cameron -- complex problems and a future with drones graphically depicted ] . . . . A couple of interesting, arresting and relevant signs here… The top one is a perennial favorite, and is far too simple to represent genuine complexity with any accuracy — but still gets something of the point [...]

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599de5baa70fce869e9628436d0c2bc2 zenpundit.com 2012-02-03T15:17:47

Wikistrat has started a simulation on the geopolitics of a North American energy market boom, in which I am participating, along with blogfriends HG99. Chris Cox and many other analysts. I have also taken a hand, as time permits, at developing their material on super empowered individuals which should be useful in future simulations. Dr. Thomas [...]

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[ by Charles Cameron -- mapping, modeling -- no, scoring complexity ] . . . . I was interested to see David Bohm‘s On Dialogue (Pegasus Communications, 1990) listed in the bibliography of Nancy Roberts‘ paper, Wicked problems and Network Approaches to Resolution, which Mike Few quoted extensively in his recent post Failing into Collaboration? [...]

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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 Quote of the Day : A Challenge on Defense Spending Edition Kingston Reif Feb 02, 2012 0 A challenge But there's an obvious contradiction in the conservative position , because the same people who want to preserve the current , robust level of military outlays also want to reduce the budget deficit without raising taxes . That just doesn't add up in an economy that is struggling to reach three-percent growth annually . We can have higher taxes and continue generating nearly half of all global military outlays or we can keep taxes where they are and bring federal outlays down to the level that current tax receipts would sustain .

17956a66ea9887610cd4366f5054d0bf Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation 2012-02-02T10:29:00

With the anniversary of New START's entry into force, it's time for an examination of the treaty's successes, future opportunities, and the hurdles nuclear arms reductions still face, writes Kingston Reif in a new article published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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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 Gift that Keeps on Not Giving Kingston Reif Feb 01, 2012 0 Reading through the news this morning , I came across a headline in the Washington Post that got me to thinking about the U.S . India civilian nuclear cooperation agreement : France to sell Rafale figher jet to India The long and the short of the story is that India inked an 11 billion deal with France for 126 Rafale fighter jets . We've known since last April that New Dehli had ruled out purchasing planes from U.S . defense firms i.e . Boeing and Lockheed Martin It's also true that the U.S . and India have concluded other defense deals and more sales are being

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Top Billing! Dan Trombly - Syria and Irresponsible Protection  A brutal fisking of R2P as a self-defeating intellectual sham, well worth your time to read: ….Three very prominent foreign policy scholars: Steven Cook,Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Shadi Hamid, have all penned pieces calling for Western powers to put the option of military intervention onto the table. Although in the past [...]

9d45673639b745e0503c6b1dea3dde10 zenpundit.com 2012-02-01T16:20:41

[by J. Scott Shipman] To Be or To Do, the blog For the last couple of years I’ve wanted to start a blog, and feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to get my feet wet here at Zenpundit, and then a little later at Fear, Honor, and Interest. Last year, I engaged a [...]

29fc249c96f07dacecd525078a1986dc Arms Control Wonk 2012-01-31T19:58:20

Did you know there is a Scud missile in the lobby of the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center.  A colleague sent along this little video, noting that if you look closely, there it is at 0:13! (Apparently, they also use it as a rally point as in “meet by the Scud”.) I know that the United States acquires foreign military equipment, [...]

dfe0dbbd87307525801b17daa1c82cb5 zenpundit.com 2012-01-31T18:17:50

Strategist and military analyst Frank Hoffman, now Director of National Defense University Press, takes a warm view of the new strategic guidance from DoD as a risk balancer in line with a dire fiscal and political reality. A “Pivot and Partner” strategy: DefenseNews - Pentagon’s New Guidance: Sound Strategy Intricately Linked to Policies  ….Despite the fact that [...]

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The Associated Press' Robert Burns wrote an article entitled "US weapons for future include key relics of the past" that features the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation's Laicie Olson discussing the 2013 Defense Budget.

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The Associated Press' Robert Burns wrote an article entitled "US weapons for future include key relics of the past" that features the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation's Laicie Olson discussing the 2013 Defense Budget.

fc6924332c4045707d5a3ffc2a4719db Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation 2012-01-26T00:48:00

The B61 life extension program has come under increasing scrutiny. And for good reason writes Nickolas Roth in this new analysis.

1e02a48e78bf4d7ac51b9ff7117ab119 Arms Control Wonk 2012-01-25T02:48:32

A fun time was had by all yesterday morning at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, DC,  where I presented my research on AQ Khan and his fourth customer. (Well, perhaps there might have been a few stony faces out there.) George Perkovich moderated. I’m grateful for all of his compliments, starting with the invitation itself. [...]

77da2cd8485aea8a0899a8a895c8def1 Arms Control Wonk 2012-01-24T01:20:25

The journal Asia Policy has published a “book review roundtable” with essays about Jonathan Pollack’s excellent book No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and International Security, followed by a response essay from Pollack The Elder.  I contributed one of the essays, as did  Toby Dalton, Sue Terry, and Sung-Yoon Lee. Both Toby and I raised a similar [...]

6004e0a633d9b525c7337c09cd7763df Arms Control Wonk 2012-01-18T06:20:30

In a postscript of sorts to a recent debate in Australia over the supply of uranium to India, blogger and political scientist NAJ Taylor approvingly cites my recent article on the A.Q. Khan network and its fourth customer, and draws a rather strong conclusion: In a large part, Pollack has assembled evidence that makes public [...]

e969dce409cc4dc5d34c6bb84f110188 Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation 2012-01-17T11:23:00

A recent report by the Defense Science Board concludes that U.S. missile defenses are still unable to discriminate between an incoming missile and decoys or countermeasures designed to confound the system, writes Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (USA, ret.) in this new analysis.

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