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Editor's NOTE
Nov 01, 2008; ... When the new president elected this month takes office, the question of how to deal with Iran's nuclear program will be at or near the top of his national security agenda. In our cover story, former Israeli Deputy National Security Adviser Chuck Freilich offers his views on how that country and ...
Jump-STARTing U.S.-Russian Disarmament
Nov 01, 2008; ... During his 2000 presidential campaign, Gov. George W. Bush pledged to "leave the Cold War behind [and] rethink the requirements for nuclear deterrence." Today, the United States and Russia each still deploy about 3,000-4,000 strategic nuclear warheads, many of which are primed for launch within ...
Notable Quotable
Nov 01, 2008; ... "One of the things that I believe very strongly is that the arms control process itself contributed to a safer world; that it was, in essence, a quartercentury seminar between the United States and the Soviet Union on how each thought about nuclear weapons .... So when I was in ...
BY THE NUMBERS
Nov 01, 2008; ... U.S. and Russian Nuclear Warheads 2,871 and Unreported Respective U.S. and Russian operationally deployed strategic warheads under the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT), according to the Department of State* 5,951 and 4,138 Respective U.S. and Russian ...
Curbing Nuclear Proliferation
Nov 01, 2008; ... Five Years Ago in ACT I think the problem under the [nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty] NPT is that you can have the full gamut of fuel-cycle technologies, and that really is the problem. The concern is not that a country has a power reactor or a research reactor. The concern is that the ...
Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Goals, Strategies, and Challenges
Nov 01, 2008; ... U.S. and Russian National Academies of Sciences, 2008. Tasked with examining the barriers to greater international control of the nuclear fuel cycle, the U.S. and Russian National Academies of Sciences concluded that it is not possible today to construct an entire, operational ...
Meeting the Challenge: U.S. Policy Toward Iranian Nuclear Development
Nov 01, 2008; ... Bipartisan Policy Center, September 2008. This report examines the threat posed by a nuclear weapons-capable Iran and the potential U.S. policy options for dealing with it. The report suggests that a "comprehensive approach should feature a new diplomatic strategy underpinned by ...
Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
Nov 01, 2008; ... By George Perkovich and James Acton, International Institute of Strategic Studies, August 2008. As calls grow for eliminating nuclear weapons, George Perkovich, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's nonproliferation program, and his colleague James Acton explore ...
Chemical Weapons Convention
Nov 01, 2008; ... On Oct. 15, Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the implementing body for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), announced that a second member of the convention had completed its stockpile destruction. South Korea, ...
What's Ahead On the Calendar
Nov 01, 2008; ... Nov. 13-14 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting of states-parties, Geneva. Nov. 19-20 Nuclear Suppliers Group consultative group meeting, Vienna. Nov. 24-28 Annual meeting of states-parties to the Ottawa Convention banning antipersonnel landmines, ...
The United States, Israel, and Iran: Defusing an "Existential" Threat
Nov 01, 2008; ... Iran is an existential threat to Israel. This apocalyptic warning call has become a mantra continually repeated by virtually all Israeli leaders and defense officials and has been adopted by much of the U.S. national security establishment. President George W. Bush even warned that Iran's ...
A New Paradigm: Shattering Obsolete Thinking on Arms Control and Nonproliferation
Nov 01, 2008; ... Challenging conventional thinking is rarely popular, even or perhaps especially when it is most needed. So it has been with the Bush administration's approach to arms control and nonproliferation issues. Determined to develop new approaches in arms control, nonproliferation, and strategic policy ...
Strategic Collapse: The Failure of the Bush Nuclear Doctrine
Nov 01, 2008; ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in September that the Bush administration will leave the proliferation "situation ...in far better shape than we found it."1 If only this were true. Instead, Bush officials leave office like financiers fleeing busted Wall Street banks, with precious assets ...
Long-Delayed Arms Sales to Taiwan Announced
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Bush administration notified Congress Oct. 3 that it plans to sell more than $6.4 billion in military equipment to Taiwan, triggering sharp criticism from China, which believes that the move would violate bilateral assurances made by Washington to decrease arms transfers to ...
U.S., NK Agree on Draft Verification Plan
Nov 01, 2008; ... After nearly two months of deadlock and North Korean threats to undo denuclearization progress made over the last year, the United States announced Oct. 11 an agreement with North Korea on measures to verify Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programs. U.S. officials emphasized, however, that the ...
Nuclear Deals Adding Up for South Asia
Nov 01, 2008; ... Key nuclear suppliers wasted little time in offering their goods to India after a September waiver of international nuclear trade restrictions against that country. France and the United States swiftly signed bilateral nuclear cooperation agreements with India, while Russia is on the verge of ...
Special Report: Major Exercise Tests CTBT On-Site Inspections
Nov 01, 2008; ... SEMIPALATINSK, KAZAKHSTAN - It was a clear and sunny day when the earth shook in Arcania. Several seismic stations that are part of the International Monitoring System (IMS) that is monitoring compliance with the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) picked up the event a short time later and ...
ElBaradei Warns of Nuclear Trafficking Threat
Nov 01, 2008; ... In an Oct. 27 statement to the UN General Assembly, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei warned that the potential that terrorists could acquire nuclear and radiological material "remains a grave threat." He noted that incidents involving the theft or loss ...
New Global Nuclear Security Institute Formed
Nov 01, 2008; ... On Sept. 29, former Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), the co-chairman of the private Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), announced the creation of the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), which would bring together nuclear technicians, security personnel, governments, and international ...
Germany Convicts Khan Associate
Nov 01, 2008; ... On Oct. 16, German authorities sentenced German engineer Gotthard Lerch to five and onehalf years in prison for his role in aiding Libya's nuclear program. Lerch, who was also fined $4.7 million by a Stuttgart court, shared sophisticated vacuum technology as part of a nuclear smuggling network ...