• Sell Your Dominoes Someplace Else, We're All Stocked Up Here

    Updated: 2010-09-02 18:32:27
    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 Sell Your Dominoes Someplace Else , We're All Stocked Up Here Kingston Sep 02, 2010 1 Friend of NoH Johan Bergenas hit the online pages of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to make that case that an Iran armed with nuclear weapons , while something we should seek to prevent , would not cause a cascade of proliferation in the Middle East . He makes a persuasive case , because , well…Johan is a persuasive guy . And did I mention that the piece has a great title : “The Nuclear Domino Myth” Nice . Come get : some But there's one problem with this nuclear domino scenario : the historical record widespread nuclear proliferation 65

  • Nuclear News: U.S. urges China to play greater role in pressuring N. Korea for 6-way talks

    Updated: 2010-09-02 12:50:00
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  • The Great North Korea Reading Comprehension Challenge

    Updated: 2010-09-02 05:49:59
    According to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il used his visit to China to express his desire to return to the Six-Party Talks. But in Wednesday’s Washington Post, Chico Harlan reported that nameless U.S. officials thought it “notable” that KCNA, the official North Korean news agency, had failed to carry [...]

  • Tom Peters on Creativity and Education

    Updated: 2010-09-02 03:15:35

  • North Korea and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella: Extended Deterrence in East Asia

    Updated: 2010-09-01 21:36:36
    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 North Korea and the U.S . Nuclear Umbrella : Extended Deterrence in East Asia Tad Sep 01, 2010 0 A panel of experts on Monday discussed the utility and effectiveness of the U.S . nuclear umbrella , or extended deterrence , in East Asia in the wake of a nuclear North Korea . The experts agreed that the U.S . policy of extended nuclear deterrence is doing little to stimulate North Korean denuclearization , but has been effective symbolically . Leading the discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS in Washington , DC on “North Korea and the U.S Nuclear Umbrella in North East Asia,” Dr . Patrick Morgan

  • ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ on the Cold War and M.A.D.

    Updated: 2010-09-01 20:52:37
    ‘Yes, Prime Minister’ tackles the Cold War’s absurd nuclear logic.  Have the times truly changed?

  • Nuclear News: New Warnings About Costs of Nuclear Power

    Updated: 2010-09-01 12:44:00
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  • Armageddon

    Updated: 2010-09-01 12:06:47
    Has anyone written a great book that covers the complex relationship between religion and the Bomb? Please help me out here. I can’t think of one. The subject is so rich for so many reasons, that whoever writes brilliantly about how religion has shaped the approach/avoidance of nuclear weapons in different societies deserves to become [...]

  • Burma, North Korea, and the WSJ

    Updated: 2010-09-01 06:33:13
    Some of the most informative and provocative reporting on nuclear proliferation and policy to be found these days emerges from the keyboard of the Wall Street Journal’s Jay Solomon. More’s the pity, then, when he seems to be cutting corners. Tuesday’s article on Jon Byong-ho and Yun Ho-jin — the Dynamic Duo of North Korean [...]

  • Kansas City, Kansas City Here It Comes…

    Updated: 2010-08-31 01:14:00
    : , . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Quotable I look forward to working with all partners to rein in spending on nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat . A central pillar of this strategy is the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty CTBT Constraining research and development on nuclear weapons is a potentially powerful tool in strengthening the global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime . United Nations Secretary-Genreral Ban Ki-moon marking the first observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests , August 29, 2010. Monday , August 30, 2010 Kansas City , Kansas City Here It Comes . Dear , Friends August 29th marked the first observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests

  • U.S. Announces More Sanctions on North Korea

    Updated: 2010-08-30 19:51:59
    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 U.S . Announces More Sanctions on North Korea Duyeon Aug 30, 2010 0 The U.S . Treasury Department's website on August 30th announced expanded sanctions on North Korea via a presidential executive order . Washington slapped sanctions on four individuals and eight firms with ties to the North Korean government and the regime's nuclear programs . Room 39 is among the blacklisted entities , which is believed to be engaged in illicit activities that fund Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs . The new sanctions are based on President Bush's Executive Order 13382 to curb nuclear and WMD proliferation . Click here for the full text of the .

  • Iran’s Qiam Missile Comments

    Updated: 2010-08-30 18:23:27
    If you are interested in the technical details regarding Iran’s Qiam ballistic missile — or really, in how to estimate the measurements of a ballistic missile from photographs — you really ought to be reading the comments to my post, Schmucker/Schiller on Iran’s Qiam. It is pretty much the most impressive thing I ever seen [...]

  • Lugar’s Delicious Leaves of Tea

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:30:52
    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 Lugar†s Delicious Leaves of Tea Travis Aug 30, 2010 1 Sayeth Saint : Dick If it is brought up , a large number of Republicans will be in favor of the New START treaty , but not all of them he said . snip I think a large majority of Republicans agree with me on arms reduction , he . said snip “I think we will not deal with the treaty on the floor until after the election . snip No I'm not predicting anything when asked if it will pass by the end of this year , beyond the fact that I think we will get to the floor and we'll have a chance to vote upon it , debate it in the lame-duck session Here†s hoping that Lugar†s

  • Obama: Additional Sanctions on North Korea

    Updated: 2010-08-30 17:03:00
    : : Stay Informed Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Home Our Work Policy Research Media Contribute Contact Blog Obama : Additional Sanctions on North Korea full text : Treasury Department August 30, 2010 TG-839 FACT SHEET : NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER TARGETING PROLIFERATION AND OTHER ILLICIT ACTIVITIES RELATED TO NORTH KOREA Today President Obama issued an Executive Order freezing the assets of certain persons with respect to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea North Korea This new Order expands the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13466 of June 26, 2008 and takes additional steps to address that national emergency . In the new Executive Order , the President finds that certain actions and policies of the Government of North Korea constitute an unusual

  • Fallen Walls and Fallen Towers by Adrienne Redd

    Updated: 2010-08-30 04:30:33
    Fallen Walls and Fallen Towers: The Fate of the Nation in a Global World by Adrienne Redd I “met” Dr. Adrienne Redd some years ago through the kind offices of Critt Jarvis, which resulted in a wide-ranging and intermittent email discussion, sometimes joined by John Robb and others, of “virtual states”, “virtual nations”, “micropowers” and evolving concepts of [...]

  • Cameron on Afghanistan 2050

    Updated: 2010-08-29 20:39:44
    The  Afghanistan 2050 Roundtable going on at Chicago Boyz: Charles Cameron -Afghanistan 2050 ….Let me clothe my speculations, then, in science fiction, openly presented as such, about “branching world-lines” and the ways in which possible futures branch out from the experienced present and often ill-remembered past… I’ll take Everett’s “Many-Worlds” theory as my framework, and throw in a [...]

  • China Proposes Resuming Six-Party Talks

    Updated: 2010-08-27 18:51:07
    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 China Proposes Resuming Six-Party Talks Duyeon Aug 27, 2010 0 Chinese envoy Wu Dawei met with his South Korean counterpart in Seoul on August 26th to discuss the resumption of the six-party nuclear talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament . But the meeting merely reaffirmed that the gap in their perception is still wide among the . parties Wu reportedly proposed resuming nuclear negotiations in three phases , according to South Korean : media 1. Hold U.S . North Korea direct talks 2.Hold unofficial , preliminary six-party talks privately behind closed doors 3. Hold official six-party talks Wu reportedly said Beijing and Pyongyang have agreed

  • Carter Leaves North Korea, Snubbed by Kim Jong-il?

    Updated: 2010-08-27 04:52:38
    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 Carter Leaves North Korea , Snubbed by Kim Jong-il Duyeon Aug 26, 2010 0 Former President Jimmy Carter has departed Pyongyang to return home with missionary Aijalon Mahli Gomes who was sentenced to eight years of hard labor and fined 700,000 for illegal entry into North Korea , according to a statement released by the Carter Center . At the request of President Carter , and for humanitarian purposes , Mr . Gomes was granted amnesty by the Chairman of the National Defense Commission , Kim Jong-Il , the statement said . Carter's private and humanitarian mission was accomplished , but history has shown that trips by former U.S . presidents to free

  • Fingerspitzengefühl, Jawohl!

    Updated: 2010-08-27 02:59:12
    Dr. Chet Richards gives a concise and practical explanation of the intuitive strategic-tactical skill, Fingerspitzengefühl. Developing the touch Ibis raised an interesting question in one of his comments:  If Fingerspitzengefühl can be taught, why do so few people have it? Two points:  First, Fingerspitzengefühl is a skill, so although most people can get better at it, some are going to get a lot better. Second, [...]

  • Kim Jong-il's Surpise China Visit?

    Updated: 2010-08-26 14:23:51
    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 Kim Jong-il's Surpise China Visit Duyeon Aug 26, 2010 0 North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is reportedly in China and there's speculation his son Kim Jong-un , heir apparent , is traveling with him . Kim Jong-il's China trips are usually confirmed after he returns to the North out of security reasons , but officials have reportedly said they detected signs of his movement . It is also his second visit to China in the same year , and his last one was in . May Kim's reported trip coincides with that of former U.S . President Jimmy Carter's in Pyongyang read previous post to secure the release of an American missionary . Carter was widely expected to

  • Schmucker/Schiller on Iran’s Qiam

    Updated: 2010-08-25 20:08:12
    Our friends Robert Schmucker and Markus Schiller send along a short note on Iran’s Qiam missile, concluding that it is a test bed for a new guidance system that will eventually find its way in the Sejil. The recent launch of Qiam 1 seems to raise some questions. We will try our best to fill [...]

  • Jimmy Carter to the Rescue... Again

    Updated: 2010-08-25 19:48:00
    Former President Jimmy Carter is in North Korea to secure the release of an American missionary sentenced to eight years of hard labor for illegal entry. The trip comes amid a North Korean nuclear impasse and heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula. Why was Carter chosen to go now and what can we expect from his visit?

  • Energy Innovation at the Crossroads of National Security

    Updated: 2010-08-24 22:28:00
    The Department of Defense can play an important role in supporting innovation and commercialization of clean, low-carbon energy, thereby directly contributing to America's future economic competitiveness and bolstering national security.

  • Saudi Arabian Uranium Enrichment?

    Updated: 2010-08-24 16:01:45
    A couple of weeks ago I summarized here that Saudi Arabia was moving ahead with plans to do nuclear power and that there were some potential issues. In July, after having read that some weighty nuclear industry companies were trying to dip their toes into Arabian sands, I talked this over with some people who [...]

  • Iran’s New Missile

    Updated: 2010-08-24 04:52:53
    It was easy to overlook amid the discussion of the Bushehr reactor starting up, but Iran’s military, always busy, announced a new ballistic missile test last week. According to Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi, the new Qiam-1 liquid-fueled ballistic missile marks an advance in countermeasures against ballistic missile defenses. Vahidi: He explained that the missile is [...]

  • The Afghanistan 2050 Roundtable Continues…..

    Updated: 2010-08-23 03:44:24
    The  Afghanistan 2050 Roundtable going on at Chicago Boyz: Dr. David Ronfeldt - Afghanistan 2050: Tribes vs. Networks, cont.: The dozen BOIDS - small ultra-quiet stealthy long-range aerial DIY drones designed to swarm against an adversary’s OODA loops - idled in range of the target, undetected, waiting for a signal that the first stone was being cast.  Ten [...]

  • Building Bridges (To Peace)

    Updated: 2010-08-20 05:42:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Quotable I look forward to working with all partners to rein in spending on nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat . A central pillar of this strategy is the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty CTBT Constraining research and development on nuclear weapons is a potentially powerful tool in strengthening the global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime . United Nations Secretary-Genreral Ban Ki-moon marking the first observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests , August 29, 2010. Thursday , August 19, 2010 Building Bridges To Peace , Friends I had the good fortune and honor of spending the weekend commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and

  • More Afghanistan 2050 Roundtable Posts

    Updated: 2010-08-19 04:47:09
    Colonel Gian P. Gentile -  2050: Newly Published History of the American Army’s Disaster in 2016 ….Then in early 2016 the war started between the United States and Turkey and Iran over the fate of Kurdistan. Both Turkey and Iran had become fed up with the constant attacks and concomitant separatist movements of their Kurdish populations and [...]

  • Is a “Region by Region” Approach Really Effective in Preventing the Spread of Sensitive Nuclear Technology?

    Updated: 2010-08-17 15:00:00
    Following an August 3 report in the Wall Street Journal, the arms control blogosphere has been buzzing about a nearly finalized nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Vietnam. According to the Journal, and now other outlets including The Guardian and Global Security Newswire , the U.S.-Vietnam deal has considerably weaker proliferation controls than the Obama administration has demanded in the past – specifically, the agreement would allow Vietnam to retain the right to enrich uranium.

  • Republican hypocrisy: Similar Treaty, Different Response

    Updated: 2010-08-16 19:35:41
    This week, a Washington Post writer called out Republican hypocrisy by examining Republican support for The Moscow Treaty, negotiated under President Bush. The Moscow Treaty passed unanimously in 2003 under President Bush. Yet twenty-four of the Republicans who voted for the previous treaty are in the Senate today, dragging their feet on START. Walter Pincus [...]

  • The Bomb and the Hope

    Updated: 2010-08-14 00:40:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Quotable I look forward to working with all partners to rein in spending on nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat . A central pillar of this strategy is the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty CTBT Constraining research and development on nuclear weapons is a potentially powerful tool in strengthening the global nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime . United Nations Secretary-Genreral Ban Ki-moon marking the first observance of the International Day against Nuclear Tests , August 29, 2010. Friday , August 13, 2010 The Bomb and the Hope Dear , Friends Nuclear weapons are , for most people , an abstract concept a concept that exists in the mind if at all without

  • Jon Kyl: hypocrite holding our security hostage

    Updated: 2010-08-13 23:22:08
    While the media was obsessed with its favorite kidnapping story, they have failed to notice that Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has been holding our security hostage by using partisan tactics to delay ratification of New START in exchange for $10 billion in ransom money for the nuclear weapons complex. From the beginning, we knew that [...]

  • Current Status of Iran's Nuclear and Ballistic Missile Programs

    Updated: 2010-08-13 01:00:00
    There is no hard consensus as to exactly how close Iran is to acquiring a nuclear weapon, fitting a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile, and/or developing a ballistic missile capable of reaching most of Europe and the United States. In this updated fact sheet, Louis Hellman, Alex Rothman, and Laicie Olson survey the relevant intelligence reports and summarizes the various estimates.

  • Another Squeeze

    Updated: 2010-08-11 15:46:00
    The U.S. will soon announce a fresh list of sanctions against North Korea to dry up the regime’s illegal cash sources that fund its nuclear weapons programs. Pyongyang is expected to unleash more provocations, even a third nuclear test, in retaliation as witnessed in the past. Still, the pressure track is expected to continue until the regime changes its behavior or until a leadership transition takes place in the North.

  • International Sanctions on North Korea

    Updated: 2010-08-11 15:28:00
    The U.S. will soon announce a fresh list of sanctions against North Korea to dry up the regime’s illegal cash sources that fund its nuclear weapons programs. Pyongyang is expected to unleash more provocations, even a third nuclear test, in retaliation as witnessed in the past. Still, the pressure track is expected to continue until the regime changes its behavior or until a leadership transition takes place in the North.

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